Reverend Ronald Borg, C.S.B.

We have received notification that our brother and fellow priest, Father Ronald A. Borg, C.S.B., entered eternal life on November 5, 2023, at the age of 80. We have been sent the following information.

Father Borg was born on January 3, 1943. He enrolled in the seminary of the religious order of Basilian Fathers in Toronto and became a missionary priest. His First Profession was on October 15, 1960, and he was ordained a priest on June 2, 1979.

Father Borg settled back in Detroit to help his ailing mother, Eleanor, and served in the Archdiocese of Detroit as Pastor of Our Lady Queen of Heaven Parish, Detroit; St. Bartholomew-St. Rita Parish, Detroit; St. Bartholomew Parish, Detroit; St. Rita Parish, Detroit; and as Administrator of St. Rita Parish, Detroit and St. Bartholomew Parish, Detroit. He also served as Parochial Vicar at St. Bartholomew Parish, Detroit and St. Louis the King Parish, Detroit.

Father Borg is survived by his St. Bartholomew family and friends.

Visitation for Father Borg will take place on Thursday, November 9, 2023, from 3 – 8 PM at Wujek-Calcaterra & Sons, Inc. Funeral Home, 36900 Schoenherr Road, Sterling Heights, Michigan 48312. He will lie in state on Friday, November 10, 2023, at 9 AM until the time of his funeral Mass at 9:30 AM at St. Blase Catholic Church, 12151 Fifteen Mile Road, Sterling Heights, Michigan 48312. Entombment will be at Cadillac Memorial Gardens East.

Kindly pray for the repose of Father Borg's soul.