Fr. Bob Konopa, OFM, is a friar of the Franciscan Province of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. In 2011 he celebrated his twenty-fifth anniversary as a professed Franciscan and twenty years of ordained ministry.
In 2008 he developed the Channel of Peace Itinerant Ministry, which covers for pastors and serves their congregations so that pastors can be away for an extended time, for a sabbatical, an illness or an educational opportunity.