From the Catholic Free Press June 19, 2014
Father Paul M. Bomba…will become pastor of St. Joseph Parish, Auburn, effective July 1, 2014.
He was born Nov. 23, 1951, in Webster, the son of Mitchell and Harriet (Krystyniak) Bomba.
He graduated from Bartlett High School, Webster. He studied for the priesthood at St. Mary College, Orchard Lake, Mich., and completed his studies at North American College in Rome. He also took summer courses at the Jagiellonian University at Kracow, Poland. During the summers of 1975 and 1976 he worked as a civilian with the United States Army in Germany.
He was ordained a priest Nov. 19, 1977, in St. Paul Cathedral by Bishop Bernard J. Flanagan. He was assigned associate pastor of Our Lady of Czestochowa Parish in Worcester and Our Lady of Jasna Gora Parish in Clinton before being appointed chaplain in the United States Army in May 1982.
After completing the Chaplain Officer Basic Course, he was assigned to the Third Armored Calvary regiment at Fort Bliss, Tex., as assistant chaplain. He served in Mainz, Germany, until 1988, attended the Chaplain Officer Advance Course at the U.S. Army Chaplain School in Fort Monmouth, N.J., and was assigned to Fort Belvoir, Va.
In 1992 the Army assigned him to recruit priests and seminarians for the Army. He was stationed at the Pentagon. The next year he was assigned to provide Catholic support for the 10th Mountain Division in Somalia.
He then was a brigade chaplain in Korea, studied ethics for a year at Princeton and taught ethics at the Army’s Air Defense Artillery School at Fort Bliss. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1998 and stationed in Hohenfels, Germany. He served tours of duty in Hungary and in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He was stationed at Fort Hood, Tex., in June 2002. He served as Catholic community chaplain at Fort Hood and was Third Armored Corps assistant command chaplain for operations.
He served in Iraq from January 2004 to February 2005. He was assigned to the Multinational Corps, Iraq. He was stationed in Baghdad where he was Deputy Corps chaplain for operations.
In March 2005, he was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, where he was Catholic base operations chaplain. He retired Dec. 31, 2006. with the rank of lieutenant colonel.
He returned to the Worcester Diocese in September 2006, and was temporary administrator of St. Theresa Parish, Blackstone. In September 2007, he was named temporary administrator of Good Shepherd Parish, Linwood. On July 1, 2008 he was appointed pastor of St. Theresa.