Georges Lemaître was a jocular Roman Catholic priest and Fred Hoyle a bluff Yorkshireman who despised organized religion. Both were giants of twentieth century cosmology but espoused diametrically opposed cosmological models.

What did Fred Hoyle believe?

Hoyle believed that as new matter forms, the universe expands without end because it is infinite in space and time and the galaxies tend to space themselves more widely apart. As they do so, new galaxies form at such a rate that their average density in space remains unchanged with time.

Was Fred Hoyle a priest?

He was Assistant Curate at St Paul, Withington then Curate in charge at St Martin, Wythenshawe from 1952 (Vicar from) 1960; on the Manchester Diocesan Pastoral Committee from 1965 to 1971; and then Vicar of Rochdale from 1971 until his Archdeacon's appointment.