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PORTLAND — Bishop Robert Deeley has announced priest assignments and retirements. All assignments are effective Friday, July 30.
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The Rev. Anthony K.Chinnaiyan, HGN, has been appointed administrator of Our Lady of the Eucharist Parish in the Lincoln area. In March 2018, Chinnaiyan was named parochial vicar of Prince of Peace Parish in Lewiston, where he served until January 2019, when he became parochial vicar at St. Paul the Apostle Parish in the Bangor area.
The Rev. Aaron L. Damboise has been appointed pastor of Holy Savior Parish (St. Athanasius and St. John Church, Rumford; Our Lady of the Snows Church, Bethel). Damboise was born in Caribou, but raised in Augusta, and was ordained to the priesthood on June 7, 2008, at St. Mary of the Assumption Church in Augusta. In July 2012, he was appointed parochial vicar of Prince of Peace Parish in Lewiston, where he served until July 2015.
The Rev. Gregory P. Dube has been appointed director of the Diocese of Portland’s Office of Vocations. This is in addition to his role as director of the diocese’s Office of Seminarians, a position in which he has served since July 2019. Dube is a native of Greene, attended Leavitt Area High School and graduated from the University of Maine at Augusta. Dube was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 2007, at the Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul in Lewiston.
The Rev. Seamus P. Griesbach has been named rector of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Portland and pastor of the other Portland Peninsula & Island Parishes. He is currently director of the Diocese of Portland’s Office of Vocations and chaplain at St. Dominic Academy in Auburn and Lewiston. Griesbach grew up in Lisbon Falls. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 2007, at the Basilica of Saints Peter & Paul in Lewiston. He was parochial vicar at St. Michael Parish in Augusta in 2013 and 2014, before being appointed to his current positions.
The Rev. Nathan D. March has been appointed pastor of St. Brendan the Navigator Parish in the Camden-Rocklan area. March is currently pastor of Holy Savior Parish (St. Athanasius and St. John Church, Rumford; Our Lady of the Snows Church, Bethel), where he’s been since 2016. March was ordained to the priesthood on June 29, 2007, at the Basilica of Ss. Peter & Paul in Lewiston. He was parochial vicar at churches comprising Prince of Peace Parish in Lewiston through July 2012, when he was named the director of vocations for the Diocese of Portland and chaplain at St. Dominic Academy in Auburn and Lewiston. In October 2014, he was appointed to assist at St. Joseph Parish in Bridgton and Fryeburg and St. Teresa of Calcutta Parish in Norway, Mechanic Falls and Oxford, and to serve as a hospital chaplain at Maine Medical Center and Mercy Hospital, both in Portland. In June 2015, he became parochial vicar at St. Anne Parish, Gorham; St. Anthony of Padua Parish, Westbrook; and Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish.
The Rev. Kevin J. Martin has been appointed pastor of St. Mary of the Visitation Parish in Houlton and St. Agnes Parish in Patten and Island Falls. He was previously parochial vicar at three Auburn parishes (Sacred Heart, St. Philip, and St. Louis), served at Our Lady of Ransom Church in Mechanic Falls, St. Mary Church in Oxford, and St. Catherine of Sienna Church in Norway and was parochial vicar at St. Michael Parish in Augusta.
The Rev. Dominic Savio, HGN, has been appointed administrator of Christ the Divine Mercy Parish in Millinocket and St. Benedict Parish in Benedicta. In 2013, Savio’s first assignment with the diocese was parochial vicar at Corpus Christi Parish in Waterville and he has been chaplain at St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center, St. Mary’s d’Youville Pavilion, St. Mary’s Residence and Central Maine Medical Center, all in Lewiston. Savio is a member of the Heralds of Good News, a missionary society of apostolic life started in India in 1984. The specific aim of the Heralds is to promote vocations to the priesthood and the training of seminarians.
The Rev. Robert C. Vaillancourt has been appointed hospital chaplain at Maine Medical Center in Portland. Among his lenghty service in Maine, he was pastor of Holy Savior Parish in Rumford and Bethel in 2012.
The Rev. Fr. James S. Plourde will retire from active ministry. A native of Caribou, Plourde spent much of his career in Aroostook County, but his first pastoral assignment was as associate pastor of Notre Dame Parish in Waterville, where he served until July 1985, when he was named parochial vicar at Holy Cross Parish in Lewiston. His career later included pastor of St. Francis Parish, Notre Dame Parish and Sacred Heart Parish, all in Waterville, in the mid-1990s.
