David Kirk

Davey "David" Kirk (March 12, 1935 – May 23, 2007) was an American priest, as well as a civil rights and anti-poverty activist who founded New York City's Emmaus House. He was reared a Baptist, but converted to the Melkite Catholic Church and later the Orthodox Church in America a few years before his death.

Death After a period of declining health, kidney trouble and other ailments, Kirk died in his sleep, aged 72. At his request, he was buried near his longtime mentor, Dorothy Day, at Resurrection Cemetery in Staten Island.

After a brief period of uncertainty with regard to the future of Emmaus House immediately following Kirk’s decline and death, it began a period of renaissance.