Bernard Marceli Goebel
Roman Catholic priest
Born Jan. 16, 1905, Brusy, Poland; came to U.S., 1951; son of Jozef and Marcjanna (Knopik).
Education: Diocesan Seminary, Pelplin (Poland), 1924-29.
Career: administrator, St. Nicholas Parish, Pawlowo and Zwiniarz (Poland), 1930-31; pastor, St. Mary Magdalene Church, Ostrowite (Poland), 1932-38, St. Stanislaus Church, Medromierz (Poland), 1939; concentration camps prisoner, Stutthoff (Poland), Sachsenhausen, Dachau (Germany), 1939-45; pastor, DP Camps, Straubing, Dingolfing (Bawaria), 1945-49, IRO Emigration Center, Ludwigsburg (Germany), 1949-50; assistant, Archdiocese of San Antonio (TX), 1951-60; administrator, St. Boniface Parish, Hobson (TX), 1960-68; pastor, Immaculate Conception Church, Panna Maria (TX), 1968-88. Retired. Chaplain, Shrine of Our Lady of Czestochowa Church, San Antonio, 1988 -.
Member of: co-founder, Polish - American Priests Association of Texas, 1971; Polish National Alliance (P.N.A.); Polish Artistic and Cultural Foundation, San Antonio.
Honors: Pomeranian Front award (for volunteer service in Polish Army, 1920), 1923; Very Reverend Canon, Bishop M. Przykucki (Poland), 1985; L. Moczygemba Award, Pollish - American Priests Association, 1988; Cross of Defender of Homeland, L. Walesa, President of Poland, 1992.
Served with: Polish Army, Infantry, Polish - Bolshevik War, volunteer, 1920
Languages: Polish, German, English, Latin, French
Hobby: hunting
Home: 150 Beethoven, San Antonio, TX 78210
From: "Who's Who in Polish America" 1st Edition 1996-1997, Boleslaw Wierzbianski editor; Bicentennial Publishing Corporation, New York, NY, 1996