St. Francis Episcopal Church
14 E. 20th Street

"A Holy Place For All Of God's People"

Father Robert Manasek was born and raised in Omaha. He attended public schools and also the University of Nebraska – Omaha, earning his BA and MA in general biology. He has worked as a lab technician in a dairy and the Eppley Cancer Institute. He has also worked as a humane officer for the Nebraska Humane Society, a zoo keeper at the Henry Doorly Zoo and for over thirty years with the national park service, which has taken he and his wife Barbara to California, Illinois, Kentucky and finally back to Nebraska. He and Barbara have two adult “children.” Bob currently is employed by the National Park Service and is a ranger at the Scotts Bluff National Monument west of Gering, NE.

As a child he attended a Lutheran and a Methodist church before settling into the Episcopal Church. He was confirmed on May 28, 1967 at Trinity Cathedral, Omaha, and ordained to the deaconate as a transitional deacon on April 18, 2006 at St. Timothy’s in Gering. Currently he serves as a priest to St. Francis, Scottsbluff.