Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P.

Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P.

Kevin Gabriel Gillen, O.P. was raised in Rockaway Beach, NY, the third of 4 children. In 1989 he received a B.A. in liberal Arts and a minor in Business Management from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and worked several years as a stock broker on Wall Street. In 1993 he began discerning a priestly vocation and studied philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville. In 1996 chose to enter the Society of Our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (S.O.L.T.) and studied theology in Kenya and Italy. He was ordained in Subiaco, Italy on June 24, 2000. He studied under Dominicans at the Angelicum in Rome where he obtained the S.T.B., M.A.. While in Rome, he discerned a call to transfer to the Order of Preachers. After completing the novitiate in 2006 he spent one year at the Dominican House of Studies in D.C. and then was assigned as a Parochial Vicar at Saint Catherine of Siena Church in New York City serving also as part time chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Hospital for Special Surgery. Fr. Gillen is currently assigned to Saint Joseph in Greenwich Village, New York City, where he serves to promote evangelization through media for the Province.

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Posted by Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P. on June 15, 2009
Gregory Schnakenberg, Bruno Mary Shah, Anthony Giambrone, Thomas Petri and Jonah Pollock, were ordained to the priesthood by His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Apostolic Nuncio and permanent observer of the Holy See to the United Nations. (Watch the video in iTunes for HD)