Alameda County Biographies

REV. JOSEPH GALLI

Transcribed by Kathy Sedler

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	Rev. Joseph Galli, pastor of St. Joseph's Portuguese church in Oakland, has been at 
the head of this congregation since 1909 and his labors have been an effective force in the 
lives of those who have come under his teachings. His birth occurred in Varese, Italy, on the 
18th of April, 1877, his parents being John and Antonia Galli. He attended the gymnasium until 
fifteen years of age and then went to Braga, Portugal, where he continued his education in the 
high school for three years. He next studied theology for five years and subsequently taught in 
an orphanage in Braga, Portugal, until twenty-three years of age, when he went to Lisbon, 
Portugal, as ordain and teacher in a school of trades. At the age of twenty-four he came to 
Oakland, California, as assistant pastor of St. Joseph's Portuguese church and in 1909 became 
pastor thereof. With consecrated zeal he has labored to advance moral interests, and his 
teachings have borne fruit in many lives. He is a member of the Y. M. I. and the Knights of 
Columbus, and also belongs to the Salesian Fathers of Venerable Don Bosco.

 

Past & Present of Alameda County, California � Vol II, S. J. Clarke Publ. Co., 1914, p. 116