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Msgr. Thomas Powers. / Screenshot from Bridgeport Diocese YouTube channel.Rome, Italy, Mar 30, 2022 / 05:53 am (CNA).The Vatican has appointed Connecticut priest Msgr. Thomas W. Powers as the next rector of the Pontifical North American College seminary (NAC) in Rome.Powers, a priest of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was formerly a student of the NAC, graduating in 1997.He also lived at the seminary for almost 10 years while serving in the Vatican s Congregation for Bishops from 2005 to 2015. He was also an adjunct spiritual director for the NAC seminarians during that time.Powers term will begin on July 1, the seminary s current rector, Father Peter Harman, announced on March 30.Harman, who will end a six-year term as rector at the end of June, called the appointee a "talented, generous, faithful, and holy priest."Since 2015, Powers has been back in Connecticut, where he serves as vicar general and moderator of the curia, and as a parish pastor, in the Diocese of B
ROME (CNS) Msgr. Thomas W. Powers, vicar general of the Diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been named rector of the Pontifical North American College, the U.S. seminary in Rome.