St. Theresa's Church, Gibraltar
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St. Theresa's Church is a Catholic church in
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. It is located in northeastern Gibraltar, along
Devil's Tower Road Devil's Tower Road is a road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The road, in the northeastern part of the settlement, runs south of Gibraltar International Airport, from Winston Churchill Avenue southeast to Eastern Beach Road. It ...
. Former priests at the church include
Bernard Devlin Bernard Devlin, (December 15, 1824 – February 7, 1880) was an Irish-born lawyer, counsel to the Abraham Lincoln administration of the United States Government during the most northerly engagement of the United States Civil War, Quebec-b ...
who went on to be the
Roman Catholic Bishop of Gibraltar The Latin Bishop of Gibraltar is the ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gibraltar, covering the British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which is exempt, i.e. immediately subject to the Holy See, not part of any ecclesiastical province, ...
. The Gibraltar government proposed to rename the road which the church is on '' Bishop Devlin Lane'' but the name
Devil's Tower Road Devil's Tower Road is a road in the British Overseas Territory of Gibraltar. The road, in the northeastern part of the settlement, runs south of Gibraltar International Airport, from Winston Churchill Avenue southeast to Eastern Beach Road. It ...
was retained. The foundation stone of the new church was laid in 1992 by Bishop Devlin. St. Theresa's had formally become a parish in 1974 when Devlin became Parish priest.Two roads to be named after Bishops
Panorama, accessed January 2013
However, Mass has been celebrated for "parishioners" since the end of World War II.


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Roman Catholic churches in Gibraltar {{Gibraltar-struct-stub