Fr. Thomas L. Knoebel has been a priest of the archdiocese of Milwaukee since 1969.  He earned his doctorate in systematic theology from Fordham University. For the past 30 years, beginning in 1981, Fr. Knoebel has served at Sacred Heart Schol of Theology in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as professor of systematic theology; director of spiritual formation, 1988-1994; academic dean, 1994-2005; twice interim rector, 1992-1993, 2007; and most recently as vice rector and vice president for external affairs. After retiring in 2013, he returned as President-Rector in 2017. He published the first English translations of De Ecclesiasticis Officiis by St. Isidore, Archbishop of Seville, in 2008; and of St. Isidore’s Sententiae, published this year; both part of Paulist Press’s important patristics series Ancient Christian Writers.  Fr. Knoebel was appointed to the Editorial Advisory Board for the Ancient Christian Writers series in 2009.