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CRANSTON. R.I. -- Two seminarians studying to be priests will be ordained as deacons by Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin at 10 a.m. Saturday at St. Paul's Church.

The two men, both natives of Providence, are Joseph Upton and Derek Puleo.

Upton, who attended Cranston public schools, earned a degree in Sacred Theology from Providence College and, in 2006, began his studies at Mount St. Mary Seminary in Emmitsburg, Md. Two years ago, he also attended the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha, and later worked as a summer seminarian at St. Ann and St. Joseph parishes in Providence and in the chaplaincy program at Rhode Island Hospital.

Puleo, who attended Pawtucket public schools, received his bachelor's degree in health policy and management from Providence College in 2001 and worked for the state department of Heath and the Hospital Association of Rhode Island before entering Our Lady of Providence Seminary in 2005. He, too, has studied at Mount St. Mary Seminary and in the formation program in Omaha, and worked at St. Maria Gorettia parish in Pawtucket and St. Mary in Cranston.

Both will serve for a week this summer as Catholic chaplains at the Boy Scouts' Camp Yawgoog, and will be assigned to St. Margaret in East Providence and St. Pius X in Westerly, respectively.

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