Hugo Mark Gerbermann

Hugo Mark Gerbermann, M.M. (September 11, 1913 - October 19, 1996) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of San Antonio in Texas from 1975 to 1982.

Gerbermann previously served as the first bishop of the Diocese of Huehuetenango in Guatemala from 1967 to 1975. Before that, he was prelate of the Territorial Prelature of Huehuetenango and a missionary in Ecuador and Guatemala.

Early life and education Hugo Gerbermann was born in Nada, Texas, to John J. and Matilda H. Gerbermann, one of eight children. He attended the Nadia Public Schools. Deciding to become a priest, he spent the next seven years studying at St. John's Seminary in San Antonio. Gerbermann entered the Maryknoll Society in 1939 and began studying the Maryknoll Novitiate House of Studies in Bedford, Massachusetts.

Priesthood

Gerbermann was ordained a priest for the Maryknoll Society at their center in New York on February 7, 1943 by Bishop James Edward Walsh. After his ordination, the Maryknoll Society sent him to the Maryknoll Mission in Guayaquil, Ecuador . He was assigned as a pastor at a parish in Quevado for three years, then one in Vinces for two years. In 1948, the Maryknoll Society left Ecuador. His funeral was held at The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and he was laid to rest at St. Mary’s Cemetery in Nada.