Fr Martin Hilbert

C.O., M.A.SC., PH.D., Lecturer in the philosophy of science at St. Philip’s Seminary, Toronto, Canada

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in 1961, Fr Martin migrated to Canada in 1968 in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion and has lived in Toronto ever since, where he studied engineering at the University (BAsc, Eng Sci 1983, MASc, Electrical 1985). In graduate school, he joined the Legion of Mary, and was subsequently clothed in the habit of St Philip on 8 September 1985 (the same day as Fr Paul Pearson). After studies at St Philip’s Seminary he was ordained to the priesthood on 1 December 1990. There followed nearly three years of work as a hospital chaplain at the Toronto Western and the Hospital for Sick Children, following which he began studies at the University of Toronto in the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, graduating in 2000 with a doctoral thesis on Pierre Duhem, the French physicist, philosopher and historian of science. Presently the pastor of Holy Family Parish Fr Martin teaches a course in the Philosophy of Science at St Philip’s Seminary.

Fr Hilbert will speak on “Evolution and Original Sin” on Saturday at 10:30am