Early life Gerald Walsh was born on April 25, 1942, in
Manhattan, the eldest of the three children of Thomas Walsh, a
police officer, and Anne (née Haggerty) Walsh, a homemaker. His siblings are Michael (b. 1944) and Monica (b. 1950). Gerald Walsh attended Good Shepherd School and
Power Memorial Academy in New York City, then
Iona College in New Rochelle, New York in 1959; there he earned the nickname of "St. Gerry" from his classmates. Walsh then attended St. Joseph's Seminary, where he obtained his
bachelor's degree and his
Master of Divinity degree.
Priesthood Walsh was
ordained to the priesthood for the Archdiocese of New York by Cardinal
Francis Spellman on May 27, 1967, in
St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan. Walsh then studied
Spanish at the Institute for Intercultural Communication of the
Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Walsh was then named
pastor of
St. Elizabeth's Parish in
Washington Heights, and regional
vicar of North Manhattan in September of that same year. In 2003, Walsh was named vicar of development of the
archdiocese, serving as its chief
fundraiser. ==See also==