[1] He is an Episcopal priest from Georgia who isolated himself from the outside world at the beginning of the outbreak, after shutting out the members of his congregation, causing their deaths.

He had been hiding within the church walls from the undead and surviving off of canned goods from the parish food pantry.

He has survived over several months alone in the church by turning away his followers and any other civilians when the zombie attacks started, saving him from internal conflict.

He is killed by Beta during the war against the Whisperers in issue 158[2][3] Gabriel first appears in the season 5 episode "Strangers".

He is heard screaming for help, and when Rick's group arrives, they find him trapped on top of a boulder with three walkers surrounding him.

During the run, he panics when he recognizes one of the walkers in the flooded basement, and is nearly killed before Rick saves him.

Breaking down sobbing, Gabriel reveals that in the immediate aftermath of the outbreak, he locked his church's doors and windows and refused to let anyone in, even members of his own congregation as they were torn apart by the walkers.

He buried their bones outside the church grounds, but nonetheless believes that he is damned to hell for what he did and begs Rick to kill him if he is.

Gabriel is clearly appalled at the group's use of violence when they slaughter all six of the Terminus survivors inside his church.

However, it is revealed that he is actually using the machete to pry open the floorboards of his office so that he can escape using a crawlspace beneath the church.

In the mid-season finale "Coda", Gabriel heads to the elementary school where the late Bob said he was taken by the Hunters when they ate his leg.

After finding the Hunters' camp, including Bob's burned leg and Mary's Bible, he is thoroughly horrified at what the world around him has become.

At that moment, the herd of walkers that was trapped inside the school finally breaks through the glass doors and begins pursuing him.

Gabriel is seen among Abraham's group when they arrive in Atlanta, in time to see Daryl carrying Beth's lifeless body.

Maggie instead coldly says that he doesn't know shit about her pain and that he does not know Hershel or Beth, bringing up Gabriel's cowardice by hiding and shutting out members of his flock from the church.

After Sasha kills a pack of dogs who prepared to attack the group and after barbecuing them for consumption, Gabriel pulls off his clerical collar and drops it into the fire.

In the episode "Spend", Father Gabriel is shown in the makeshift chapel, emotionally tearing pages out of a Bible.

Gabriel later goes to Deanna's house and tries to convince her that Rick and the entire group are evil in disguise and the Alexandria community shouldn't have taken them in.

After the group has to disguise themselves with walker guts to reach the armory, Gabriel tells Rick that this time he will not run, regardless of what happens.

When Rick and his group make a stand against the herd, Gabriel rallies the Alexandrians in his church and joins in the fight, killing many walkers.

In "Service," shortly after Negan starts asking Rick about Maggie, and talking about how he'd love to bring her back to The Sanctuary, Father Gabriel sneaks up from behind.

Gabriel expresses the fact that Rick has inspired him, but Spencer continues to claim that his family was better at leading Alexandria.

Spencer finally says that he hopes Rick doesn't come back alive, which forces Gabriel to call him a "tremendous shit."

In "Something They Need," Gabriel joins Rick, who leads a small group of Alexandrians towards The Oceanside; a location Tara had found earlier.

In the season finale "Wrath" Gabriel returned to the Sanctuary once the bullets were created and accompanied Negan in his vehicle to the place where he was going to unleash the war to confess as he had done previously.

Confused by the new attitude of the man of wanting to kill everyone leaving aside his old law that people were a resource; Gabriel took advantage of the fact that a wayfarer blocked his way to escape from his captors and into the forest, although it was not long before he was captured by Eugene and Laura and returned to the vehicle.

Held at gunpoint by Negan, Gabriel was condemned to die and prepared for his end as the villain counting down as his teammates searched for him and luckily managed to save himself when all the weapons exploded thanks to Eugene's plans.

Anne finds herself unable to kill Gabriel which he uses as proof that she is still a good person, promising to meet her in another year.

When Anne fails to show up to their yearly meeting, a heartbroken Gabriel realizes that she is dead and crafts a makeshift grave marker for her.

[4] During the series' San Diego Comic-Con panel it was revealed that he would be playing the pivotal comic role of Father Gabriel.