(August 7, 1903 as Anthony Boeddeker — January 1, 1994) was an American Franciscan friar who is best known for having founded humanitarian programs to aid the poor and marginalised in the San Francisco Bay Area.

After his return from Rome, he taught for fifteen years at the Franciscan School of Theology at the Mission Santa Barbara.

In preparation for this assignment, he enrolled in a graduate program at the University of California, Berkeley to study Mandarin, Japanese and Russian languages and Chinese history and politics.

Father Boeddeker was then appointed pastor of St. Boniface Church in the Tenderloin, San Francisco, California, where he remained for the rest of his life.

which was created as a tribute to Boeddeker by artist Ruth Asawa with assistance from children at Redding Elementary School.