About the Chapel and the Pastor

Our Pastor

Father Stanislaw Oleksy, S.D.S.

Ordained May 8, 1982

Fr. Stanislaw J. Oleksy was born to Stanislaw Oleksy and Czeslawa Smolen Oleksy on September 17, 1956 in Borzencin, Poland. He was the second of three children, including his older sister, Danuta, and younger brother Fr. Kazimierz. Fr. Stanislaw grew up in Biskupice, Radlowskie, Poland and completed high school in 1975. He then entered the Salvatorian Fathers Seminary in Bagno, Poland. He studied for seven years, and was ordained a priest on May 8, 1982 in Trzebinia, Poland by Bishop Jan Pietraszko. Interestingly, his ordination day coincided with the Feast of St. Stanislaus.

Fr. Stanislaw Oleksy's first assignment as a Catholic priest was to a large parish of 36,000 parishoners in Krzyz Wielkopolski. He was Assistant to the Pastor for two years. He then moved to another parish in Trzebinia, Poland and worked as an assistant. In 1985, Fr. Stanislaw came to the U.S. He supported several parishes in Chicago by serving the Polish people. Three years later, he moved to a monastery in Merrillville, Indiana and stayed for one year. From 1989 to 1994, Fr. Stanislaw moved to a monastery in Verona, New Jersey. There, he helped in Polish parishes while studing English at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Then, in 1994 he was assigned to Rodgers, Arkansas as a Chaplain at St. Mary's Hospital and as Administrator at St. John's parish in Huntsville, Arkansas.

Fr. Stanislaw Oleksy on June 1, 2000 was appointed as Pastor of St. Stanislaus Church, Bandera, Texas and St. Victor's Chapel, Lakehills, Texas. He is currently in charge of the restoration of the historic church.