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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Roman Catholic Bishop Thomas J. Tobin will ordain two men to the priesthood -- deacons Albert P. Marcello III and Andrew Messina -- in ceremonies at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Cathedral of SS. Peter & Paul.

Deacon Marcello is a graduate of Bishop Hendricken High School, Our Lady of Providence Seminary and Providence College, Deacon Marcello began his theological studies at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome in 2004 and was later assigned to the Institute for Priestly Formation at Creighton University in Omaha. He's been a summer seminarian at St. Mary, Star of the Sea parish in Narragansett, St. Pius X in Westerly and St. Paul parish in Cranston. He also served in the chaplaincy program at Rhode Island Hospital.

He will celebrate his first Mass as a priest Sunday at 9 a.m. at Holy Name of Jesus Church on Camp Street.

A native of Belleville, N.J., Deacon Messina received a degree in electrical engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pa., and a degree in computer science from Iona College in New York. He began his theological studies in 2005 at Blessed John XXIII Seminary in Weston, Mass., and went on to the Institute for Priestly Formation in Omaha a year later. He was a summer seminarian at St. Matthew parish in Cranston and will celebrate his first Mss Sunday at St. Peter's Church in Warwick.

In preparation for the ordinations a Holy Hour for priestly vocations will be held 7 p.m. Friday night, June 12, at Blessed Sacrament Church at 179 Academy Ave. with Bishop Louis E. Gelineau presiding and Msgr. John J. Darcy as homilist.

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