Memory Eternal!

Economos Antony Gabriel
of Blessed Memory
November 2, 2022

Memorial Service this Sunday
November 6. 2022 following the prayer at the Ambon during the 10:30 AM Divine Liturgy held at Saint George Orthodox Church of Montreal

 
Economos Antony Gabriel, whose priestly ministry spanned six decades, four parishes and a host of Archdiocesan organizations, reposed in the Lord Jesus Christ on Wednesday, November 2, 2022.

Fr. Antony, 82, was born in Syracuse, New York. Soon after he graduated St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary in 1962, Metropolitan Antony Bashir ordained him to the holy priesthood and Fr. Antony began his first parish assignment at St. George Church of Phoenix, Arizona. Fr. Antony later served St. Elias Church of Sylvania, Ohio and founded St. George Church of Cicero, Illinois before serving at St. George Church of Montreal, Quebec, which he pastored for nearly 39 years from where he retired in 2015.

In Montreal, he facilitated the welcomes and relocations of Lebanese refugees from their homeland's "uncivil war," as Fr. Antony called it, in the 1980s. He did the same for Syrian refugees fleeing the war in their homeland in the 2010s. St. George Church doubled in size to 1,000 families during his tenure, and he helped establish St. Mary Church in Montreal.
In 1976, Fr. Antony was a founding member and the first chaplain of The Order of Ignatius of Antioch. He also organized the Department of Conventions and Conference Planning, created the Antiochian Heritage Foundation, and lectured on Antiochian Church history at the Antiochian House of Studies.

Fr. Antony often accompanied Metropolitan Philip Saliba to the Middle East. Sayidna Philip led the celebrations of Fr. Antony's 50th anniversary in the holy priesthood in 2012. Fr. Antony retired from active ministry in 2015 and moved to Tucson, Arizona.
Funeral services are pending. Please keep Fr. Antony in your prayers for the
departed and his wife, Kh. Lynn, and their family in your prayers for the living. May Fr. Antony's memory be eternal!

Father Antony will be remembered at the service of Prothesis this Sunday for the first time among the departed clergy of this parish, at the Great Entrance, and during the memorial Service near the end of the Divine Liturgy which starts at 10:30 am, Sunday November 6, 2022.


A Memorial Service will be held this Sunday November 6, 2022
here at Saint George Orthodox Church of Montreal during the 10:30 am Divine Liturgy

located at
555 Jean Talon E., Montreal, Qc, H2R 1T8