U.S. priest who was educator, author and missionary in East Africa dies at age 84
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Send to friendPITTSBURGH (CNS) — Spiritan Father Eugene Hillman, an American educator, author and missionary in East Africa, died near Pittsburgh Aug. 5 after a long battle with Parkinson’s disease. He was 84.
A funeral Mass for Father Hillman was celebrated Aug. 10 at the Spiritan Center in Bethel Park, Pa. He was buried in a plot for Spiritan priests at St. Mary Cemetery in Pittsburgh.
Father Hillman’s teaching career spanned more than 25 years at more than nine institutions, such as Salve Regina University in Newport, R.I., and the Yale Divinity School in New Haven, Conn. He wrote five books and articles in the fields of missiology, ecclesiology and social ethics.
Through the years, the priest served as director of Catholic Relief Services in Tanzania during a famine, Africa director for the Christian Children's Fund and a consultant on UNICEF-Kenya socioeconomic development.
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