Father Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., is the prior of St. Michael’s Abbey of the Norbertine Fathers in Trabuco Canyon, Orange County, California.

Fr. Hugh holds a B.A. in Classics from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a license in Patristics from the Pontifical Institute of Augustinianism in Rome, and a Ph.D. in Thomistic Philosophy from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome.

He teaches both Augustinian studies and philosophy in his abbey, and he is a member of the Ecumenical Commission of the Diocese of Orange.