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Ordination

services set for Fayette's 'Fernando'

Fernando

Molina Restrepo, known to Holy Trinity and St. Gabriel

Catholic Church parishioners simply as

"Fernando," will be ordained to the priesthood

Saturday, June 12 at St. Catherine of Siena Church in

Kennesaw at 10:30 a.m.

He will

celebrate his first Mass Saturday at 5:30 p.m. at St.

Gabriel's in Fayetteville, where he served as a

seminarian intern in the summer of 1996. A reception will

follow.

Restrepo's

first assignment following ordination will be at Holy

Trinity as a parochial vicar. He served there as a

seminarian intern last summer. Holy Trinity will host a

dinner for Restrepo's family and friends Saturday

evening.

Restrepo is

a native of Anserma Caldas, Colombia. He is one of eight

children of Maria Enoe-Restrepo and the late Luis

Gildardo-Molina. He studied economics at the Military

University in Bogota, and studied philosophy and did

missionary work with the Archdiocesan Seminary of

Monterey, Mexico, completing his philosophy studies at

the San Jose Archdiocesan Seminary in Bogota.

Restrepo

earned a master's degree in divinity in 1998 and second

masters degree in religious education in 1999 from St.

Vincent Seminary in Latrobe, Pa.

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