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Father Adolph Giorda, O.F.M.

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Father Adolph Giorda, O.F.M., who served as a pastor in Manhattan and as a missioner to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador, died May 24 at St. Patrick’s Home in the Bronx. He was 90. 

Beginning in 1948, he served for 20 years in the missions in Central America in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. While in Honduras, he raised funds and built a baseball field for the poor children in the area where he served. He was named to the country’s Baseball Hall of Fame.

He served as pastor of Most Precious Blood parish, Manhattan, 1976-1980, and was parochial vicar there, 1970-1973. He was parochial vicar at Our Lady of Pity, the Bronx, 1974-1976.

He also served at St. Anthony of Padua, Manhattan; St. Peter’s, Staten Island; and Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mount Vernon. He served at Mount Alvernia Retreat House, Wappingers Falls.

Active in the pro-life movement, he attended the March for Life in Washington, D.C. for 28 consecutive years.

Born in Manhattan, he professed first vows in the Order of Friars Minor, Province of the Immaculate Conception, in 1942 and professed final vows in 1945. He was ordained in 1948.  

A Funeral Mass was offered May 28 at St. Anthony’s in Manhattan, followed by burial in the friars’ plot in Calvary Cemetery, Queens.

Father Adolph Giorda, O.F.M.