Clergy

Reverend Eric W. Silva, Parish Administrator 

 I was born on Long Island, NY but my family moved when I was four years old to Trumbull where I grew up going to public elementary and middle school before attending St. Joseph High School. I grew up playing soccer and going to NY Jets games with my father and two brothers. I still have very fond memories of arriving early and staying late tailgating, just to avoid traffic back home.

The beauty and the wonder of the Catholic faith was introduced to me during my high school years, and it was there that the seeds of my vocation to the priesthood were planted. After graduating from St. Joseph’s High School in 2008, I attended Saint Anselm College in Manchester, NH to study psychology. It was while I was away at college that I encountered the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in a much deeper and lasting way as well as a community of Benedictine priests and brothers living out holiness in a way that was very attractive to me.

After a period of serious prayer, I left St. Anselm’s in the spring semester of my junior year of college to enter Saint John Fisher Seminary Residence in Stamford, CT. After a year and a half, I finished minor seminary and received a BA in Philosophy from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. I was sent to Mount St. Mary’s Seminary in Emmitsburg, MD for four more years of formation, studying theology; after my seminary formation in Maryland, I received a Master’s Degree of Divinity as well as a MA in Systematic Theology. After six years of seminary formation, I was ordained to the Priesthood of Jesus Christ on June 25, 2016 for the Diocese of Bridgeport.

 My first assignment and my first two years of priesthood were spent serving the good people at Saint Joseph’s Parish in Brookfield, CT. In the spring of 2018, the Bishop assigned me to be the Chaplain of St. Joseph High School in Trumbull for five years and the last year and a half was spent serving as parochial vicar of Saint Rose of Lima Church in Newtown. I could not be more grateful and excited to begin serving the people and the community of Saint Joseph’s Church in Danbury. Please do keep me in your prayers and be assured that I have been and will continue to pray for all of you. God bless!