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Faculty of Theology
Phone: (416) 926-7140
Fax: (416) 926-7294
Email: usmctheology.registrar@utoronto.ca

Offices Location

95 St. Joseph Street, Room 211

Cardinal Flahiff Building

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Mailing Address

Faculty of Theology

81 St. Mary Street
Toronto, ON M5S 1J4 Canada


Key Contacts

Student Services Officer Emil Iruthayathas

Advanced Degree Programs Director Colleen Shantz

Basic Degree Programs Director Christian McConnell

Director of Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology Dennis O'Hara

Director of Pastoral Formation and Director of the Israel Program Darren Dias, OP

Director of Field Education Stan Chu Ilo

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Faculty of Theology Web Site USMC Website Manager

Student Life Committee Student Life Committee

Full Time Faculty

Michael Attridge

Michael Attridge, BA, MA, STL, PhD (St. Michael's)
Associate Professor,
Systematic Theology; Christology; Vatican II
michael.attridge@utoronto.ca
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Mario O. D'Souza, csb Dean Faculty of Theology

Mario O. D' Souza, CSB, BA, MEd, MDiv, CAES, PhD (Toronto)
Associate Professor, Dean of Theology
Jacques Maritain; Philosophy of Education; Catholic Educational Theory; Religion and Education; Catholic University; Person and Personalism
Associate Member SGS Theory and Policy Studies in Education OISE/UT
mario.dsouza@utoronto.ca
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Darren Dias

Darren Dias, OP, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael's)
Assistant Professor, Director of Pastoral Formation
Trinitarian Theology; Religious Diversity; Lonergan Studies
darren.dias@utoronto.ca

Stan Ilo

Stan Chu Ilo, BPhil, BD, PGCE, PGDE, STL, MA, ThM, PhD (St. Michael's), DEd (cand, UNISA)
Assistant Professor, Director of Field Education
Religious Education; Multicultural Education; Systematic Theology; Theories of Leadership; Augustine; Balthasar
stanchu.ilo@utoronto.ca
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Christian McConnell

Christian McConnell, BA, BTh, MA, PhD (Notre Dame)
Assistant Professor, Director of Basic Degree Programs
Early Liturgical History; Christian Initiation; Liturgical Theology; Sacramental Theology
christian.mcconnell@utoronto.ca

John L. McLaughlin
John L. McLaughlin, BA, MA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael's)
Associate Professor

(Research Leave July 1, 2012 - December 31, 2012)
Ugarit; Israelite Origins; Ancient Israelite Religion; Pre-exilic Prophets; Wisdom Literature; Psalms; Hebrew Poetry
Cross-appointed to the Graduate Faculty, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations, University of Toronto
johnl.mclaughlin@utoronto.ca

Dennis Patrick O'Hara
Dennis Patrick O'Hara, DC, ND, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael's)

(Research Leave - January 1, 2013 - June 30, 2013)
Associate Professor, Director of the Elliott Allen Institute for Theology & Ecology
Associate Member of the Graduate Faculty for the Centre for Environment, University of Toronto
Ecological Ethics; Christian Ethics; Theology and Ecology; Spirituality and Ecology
dennis.ohara@utoronto.ca
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Colleen Shantz

Colleen Shantz, BA, MDiv, PhD (St. Michael's)
Associate Professor, Director of Advanced Degree Programs

New Testament Social World; Social Scientific Approaches; Early Christian Religious Experience; Cognitive Science of Religion
Cross-appointed to the Department for the Study of Religion, University of Toronto
c.shantz@utoronto.ca
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Adjunct Faculty

Teaching in 2012-2013

Anne Anderson, c.s.j., RegN, BA, MHA, MA, DMin (Regis College/UT) 
Associate Professor, President and Vice-Chancellor
Jewish - Christian Studies; Pastoral Ministry; Pastoral Theology
anne.anderson@utoronto.ca

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Daniel Bader, BA, MA, PhD (Toronto)
Adjunct Professor
Ancient Philosophy, Biomedical Ethics
daniel.bader@utoronto.ca

Dan Bahat, BA, PhD (London)
Adjunct Professor
Biblical Archaeology
dan.bahat@utoronto.ca

Terence J. Fay, s.j., BA, Lic. Phil., MA, STL & MA, PhD (Georgetown)
Adjunct Professor
Christian History, Canadian Religious History, Immigrant Religious History
terence.fay@utoronto.ca

Jean Pierre Fortin, BA, MA (Phil.), PhD (Phil.) (Laval) MA (Theo), PhD (Theo.) (Candidate) (St. Michael’s)
Adjunct Professor
Systematic Theology, Philosophy in Science
jeanpierre.fortin@mail.utoronto.ca

Heather Macumber, BAH, MDiv., PhD (Candidate) (St. Michael’s)
Adjunct Professor
Exilic and Post-Exilic Prophecy, Ancient Israelite Religion
heather.macumber@mail.utoronto.ca

Moira McQueen, BA, MDiv., PhD (St. Michael’s)
Adjunct Professor
Foundational themes in Christian ethics, Natural Law; human sexuality and marriage, justice: individual and social
moira.mcqueen@utoronto.ca

Mary Rowell, c.s.j., RegN, BA, MA., PhD (Durham)
Adjunct Professor
Church and Society, Theological bioethics, especially the social dimensions of health care and global health, Eco-theology, ethics and society, Worship and Ethics, The History and Evolution of Religious Life
mary.rowell@utoronto.ca

T. Allan Smith, c.s.b., BA, MA, MDiv, DTheol (Erlangen)
Associate Professor, Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Early and Medieval Church History; Russian Church History and Theology; Eastern Orthodox Spirituality; Monasticism; 19th and 20th Century Orthodox Theology; Sergei Bulgakov
allan.smith@utoronto.ca

Michael Steinhauser, BA, STL, ThD (Wuerzburg)
Adjunct Professor
Christian Origins: New Testament and Early Christian Literature; Intertestamental Period, Art and Theology
m.steinhauser@utoronto.ca

Professor Emeritus

Teaching In 2012-2013

William H. Irwin, c.s.b., BA, MA, STL, SSD (Pontifical Biblical Institute)
Professor Emeritus
Old Testament; Biblical Hebrew Poetry; comparative Northwest Semitic; Biblical Spirituality
bill.irwin@utoronto.ca

Michael Vertin, BA, STB, MA, STL, PhD (Toronto)
Professor Emeritus
Philosophy of Theology; Theological Foundations of Multi-disciplinary Studies
michael.vertin@utoronto.ca

Administration and Staff

Chancellor His Eminence, Thomas Cardinal Collins | Read Profile

President and Vice-Chancellor Anne Anderson, CSJ | Read Profile

Bursar and Chief Financial Officer Georgina Kossivas

Dean of the Faculty of Theology Mario O. D' Souza, CSB | Read Profile

Student Services Officer Emil Iruthayathas

Executive Assistant to the Dean Cicily Tang

Director of Advanced Degree Programs Colleen Shantz | Read Profile

Director of Basic Degree Programs Christian McConnell

Director of Field Education Stan Chu Ilo | Read Profile

Director of Pastoral Formation Darren Dias, O.P.

Director of The Elliott Allen Institute for Theology and Ecology Dennis O'Hara | Read Profile

Principal of St. Michael's College and Interim Director of Library and Archives Domenico Pietropaolo | Read Profile