FAIRFIELD, Conn. – Seminarian Shawn W. Cutler, who grew up in Brewer, Maine, was ordained Dec. 18 as transitional deacon and is expected to be ordained a Roman Catholic priest this spring.

Cutler, 32, is the son of Sheila and the late Dr. William H. Cutler Jr. of Brewer.

He is a graduate of John Bapst Memorial High School in Bangor, Maine. He graduated cum laude from College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Mass.

He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and a master’s degree in business from Husson College in Bangor. His seminary studies have been at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

The Most Rev. William E. Lori, bishop of Bridgeport, Conn., ordained Cutler at St. Pius X Parish in Fairfield. He is to be ordained to the priesthood May 21.