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THE ANCHOR-Diocese of Fall River-Friday, Dec. 2, 1983
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silver jubilee Rev. John R. Foister, pastor of St. Anne parish, Fall River, will celebrate the silver jubilee of his ordination to the priest hood during a special noon Mass, Sunday, December 11. Very Rev. John Paul Driscoll, pastor of St. Lawrence parish and New Bedford area dean, will be the homilist. The St. Anne Chorale, unc;ler direction of Normand Gingras, will perform and ,lead the congregation in song. Following the Mass and under the cochairmanship of Donald Valcourt and Stephen Marcis zyn; the p~ish will host Father Foister and his guests at a ban quet and reception in St. Anne School auditorium on Forest Street. ·Bom in Fall River on Decem ber 6, 1931, the jubilarian was educated at the Brown School and Dominican Academy and at St. Anne and Blessed Sacrament parish schools; also at Mt. St.' Charles Academy in Woonsocket, and Our Lady of Providence seminary in Warwick. He prepared for the priest hood at St. Mary's Seminary, Baltimore, and at the Pontifical North American College in Rome, where, at the Pontifical Gregorian University, he ob tained Licentiate in Sacred TheologY. degree. He was ordained a priest on December 20, 1958 by too Most Rev. Martin J. O'Connor, rector of the American College in Rome. In his pastoral ministry, Father li'olsterserved as associ ate pastor at St. Roch, Sacred Heart, .Notre Dame and St. Louis pQrishes in Fall River; St. Anthony' of Padua parish in New Bedford; and St. Louis de France jn Swansea. Before as suming ~is present pastorate in 1978 he was for two years pas tor of Sacred Heart parish, Fall River.
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Foister resided at St. Joseph : (/r .: parish, Fall River and worked : as a liaison in the disaster f i e l d · with the St. Vincent de p a u l : ? Societies and as a juvenile court • chaplain.: In the Fall River area he is • known for his work with emer- •
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