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Gál Gedeon OFM, Dr

Gál Gedeon OFM, Dr
Deceased
Birth data:
Tószeg, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Hungary — January 9, 1915
Death data:
Ringwood, NJ, USA — May 25, 1998
Denomination:
Roman Catholic
Ecclesiastical status:
religious
Diocese / Order:
ferences (Ordo Fratrum Minorum) (Kapisztrán kusztódia)
Ordination level:
priest
Entry into religious life:
August 29, 1932
Perpetual vows:
August 30, 1933
Priestly ordination:
September 10, 1939
Other name used:
Gaál
Biographical data
He graduated from high school in Szolnok and entered the Franciscan Order on August 29, 1932. He took his perpetual vows on August 30, 1933, and was ordained a priest on September 10, 1939. He was sent to Rome in 1941 to pursue his studies. His dissertation, written there, was destroyed due to the events of the war, so he had to write a new one. After the Soviet occupation, he was unable to return home, so he lived and taught in Naples. In 1962, he emigrated to the United States, though he had already spent short periods of time in the country on several occasions prior to that. After the dissolution of the Kapisztrán Custody, he joined the Holy Name Province.
Foreign service locations
From To Place Country Church / institution Position
1941 1962 Róma Italy Pursuing studies and teaching activities, living in Flint, MI, USA, around 1947, then in Roebling, NJ, USA, and in New York, NY, USA, around 1950
1962 before Nápoly Italy pastor
1962 1989 Saint Bonaventure, NY USA college professor
1963 circa Dewitt, MI USA pastor
Literary activity
17 tanulmányt jelentetett meg. Stimulus amoris. A szeretet zsarátnoka. Írta Milánói Jakab. Ford. Bp., 1941. (A lelki élet ferences mesterei 4.)
Beszélgetések a lelkemmel. Írta Szt Bonaventura. Ford. Bp., 1941. (Uaz 6.) (2. kiad. 1944)
A Guillelmi de Militana, Quaestiones de sacramenti (Bibliotheca Franciscana Scholastica Medii Aevi XVII-XVIII., XXIII.) és a Matthei ab Aquasparta Sermones (Bibliotheca Franciscana Ascetica Medii Aevi X.) c. kiadványok munk.
A Franciscan Studies szerk-je.
Life timeline
Birth
Tószeg, Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, currently Hungary
Entry into religious life
Perpetual vows
Priestly ordination
Service abroad
19411962
Róma, Italy
Pursuing studies and teaching activities, living in Flint, MI, USA, around 1947, then in Roebling, NJ, USA, and in New York, NY, USA, around 1950
Service abroad
Saint Bonaventure, NY, USA
college professor
Service abroad
Dewitt, MI, USA
pastor
Death
Ringwood, NJ, USA
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Citation for this entry
Gál Gedeon OFM, Dr: personal record. In: Historical directory of Hungarian, Hungarian-descended, and Hungarian-speaking clergy serving abroad. Available at: https://www.diaszporalelkipasztorok.hu/persons_v2/view.php?id=311 (accessed: 2026-05-06).