Hugh Montefiore

Hugh Montefiore

Hugh William Montefiore (12 May, 1920 - 13 May, 2005) was Bishop of Birmingham from 1977 to 1987.

He was a member of a famous Jewish family. His father was Charles Sebag-Montefiore (great-great-nephew of Sir Moses Montefiore). He was educated at Rugby School (where he underwent a sudden conversion to Christianity), St John's College, Oxford and Westcott House Theological College, Cambridge. In 1945 he married Elisabeth Paton.

He was Vicar of the Church of St Mary the Great, Cambridge from 1963 to 1970 and Bishop of Kingston upon Thames from 1970 to 1978.

Montefiore was the author of more than twenty books, including "Credible Christianity", "The Probability of God", "On Being a Jewish Christian" (1998), and "The Paranormal: A Bishop Investigates" (2002).

References


* The Birmingham Post Year Book and Who's Who 1979-80, "Birmingham Post & Mail Ltd, July 1979"

External links

* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/05/14/db1401.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/05/14/ixportal.html Obituary in the Daily Telegraph]
* [http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/2005/may/14/guardianobituaries.religion Guardian obituary]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article522170.ece Times obituary]
* [http://www.southwark.anglican.org/news/pr281.htm Southwark news item]


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