LEWISTON — On Saturday, May 26, the first ordination for the Diocese of Portland in 2012 will take place at Holy Family Church, Prince of Peace Parish. Bishop Richard Malone will ordain Deacon Emile Henri Dube at 10 a.m.

Dube, 60, served for 35 years as a brother in the Catholic order of Salesians of St. John Bosco in New York. Most of his work was in religious education and youth ministry in various states and countries as well as fundraising to support the work of the order around the world.

A native of Lewiston, Dube graduated from St. Dominic Regional High School and Ohio Dominican University, studied at the Institute of Salesian Studies in Berkeley, Calif., and graduated from Blessed John XXIII Seminary, Weston, Mass., with a Masters in Divinity.

He has had three summer placements in Maine: at Good Shepherd Parish, Biddeford (2009); Parish of the Precious Blood, Caribou (2010); and Parish of the Ascension of the Lord, Kittery (2011).

On Sunday, June 3, Deacon David Affleck will be ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Malone at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, Portland, at 10 a.m. Affleck, 62, is originally from Long Beach, Calif., and earned his bachelor’s degree in business from California State University, Sacramento. He also attended the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley where he received his Masters of Divinity in 1995. Affleck became an ordained minister in the Episcopal Church in 1995 and served Woodland, Folsom and Sacramento, Calif., churches as well as St. John’s Episcopal Church in Saugus, Mass.

In 2008, Affleck made his profession of faith to the Catholic Church and after taking a number of written and oral exams was considered for the diaconate and the priesthood.

Affleck and his wife, Katherine, live in York and have two adult children. Since 1980, a pastoral provision has allowed former Episcopalian priests, married or single, to become priests in the Catholic Church. In the Diocese of Portland, two men have previously been ordained under this provision.