Fr. Gabriel Gillen, OP
Parochial Vicar
Phone: 212-741-1274
371 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10014
Fr. Gabriel Gillen, O.P., was raised in Rockaway Beach, New York, the third of four 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 he 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. He was a part time chaplain at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York Presbyterian-Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Hospital for Special Surgery and Rockefeller University Hospital.
In addition to being a Parochial Vicar at St. Joseph's, Fr. Gillen is the webmaster for the Dominican Province of St. Joseph's website, as well as for its Vocations website, and both hosts and co-hosts the XM/Sirius Radio's Catholic Channel: Word to Life Program.