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  Sources: Alberto Cutie to Wed Within Weeks

By Jaweed Kaleem
Miami Herald
June 12, 2009

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking-news/story/1094458.html

Alberto Cutie will tie the knot within weeks, say sources close to the former Roman Catholic priest who joined the Episcopal church in late May.

Cutie and his fiancee, 35-year-old Ruhama Buni Canellis, recently hired several off-duty police officers to work security at the high-profile private wedding, which will take place at an unnamed Episcopal church in the next two weeks.

The Rt. Rev. Leo Frade, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Southeast Florida, will officiate at the wedding ceremony.

One church not on the wedding list: Miami's Trinity Cathedral, the diocese's flagship church and one that dozens of international reporters flooded after Cutie and Canellis switched Christian denominations on May 28.

Cutie, nicknamed "Father Oprah," gave his first sermon as an Episcopalian on May 31 at Church of the Resurrection in Biscayne Park and has started a yearlong process to become an Episcopal priest. In the meantime, he will continue to give sermons and rehabilitate ailing Episcopal churches, including Church of the Holy Comforter in Miami's Little Havana neighborhood.

Cutie left his position at St. Francis de Sales Catholic church in Miami Beach when photographs showing him nuzzling Canellis on a Florida beach — a violation of his vow of celibacy — were published in a celebrity magazine in early May.



 
 

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