St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church (Bronx, New York)

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St. Gabriel's Church
40°53′6.66″N73°54′42.62″W / 40.8851833°N 73.9118389°W / 40.8851833; -73.9118389 Coordinates: 40°53′6.66″N73°54′42.62″W / 40.8851833°N 73.9118389°W / 40.8851833; -73.9118389
Location 3250 Arlington Ave
The Bronx (Riverdale), New York City
Country United States
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website www.stgabrielsinthebronx.org
Architecture
Completed 1939
Administration
Parish St. Gabriel
Archdiocese New York
Clergy
Pastor(s) Rev. Brian P. McCarthy

St. Gabriel's Roman Catholic Church is a parish located in the Riverdale section of The Bronx, New York. The parish was created in 1939 by Francis Spellman, then the Archbishop of New York, as the successor to the St. Gabriel’s Church on East 37th Street in Manhattan, which was razed in 1937 to accommodate the construction of the Queens-Midtown tunnel. [1] The pews, altars and statues of the original church were relocated to the new structure, and many of the church’s Irish-American congregants also moved to the Bronx to be near their parish. [2] The Right Reverend Francis W. Walsh, pastor of the Church of the Assumption in Peekskill, New York, and president of the College of New Rochelle, was named pastor [3] – a post he held until his retirement in 1969.

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