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, Cambridge. In 1945 he married Elisabeth Paton., niece of Sir William D.M. Paton.^[1]

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 20 books, including The Probability of God (1985), Christianity and Politics (1990), Credible Christianity (1993), On Being a Jewish Christian (1998) and The Paranormal: A Bishop Investigates (2002).

References

^ Cockburn, Patrick (24 January 2011). Daily Mail (London). http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1349398/Patrick-Cockburn-My-son-played-Russian-roulette-cannabis-lost.html?ito=feeds-newsxml.

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Church of England titles
Preceded by William Percy Gilpin	Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames 1970-1978	Succeeded by Keith Norman Sutton
Preceded by Laurence Ambrose Brown	Bishop of Birmingham 1977-1987	Succeeded by Mark Santer

Bishops of Kingston-upon-Thames

Cecil Hook • Samuel Taylor • Percy Herbert • Frederick Hawkes • William Gilpin • Hugh Montefiore • Keith Sutton • Peter Selby • Martin Wharton • Peter Price • Richard Cheetham

Bishops of Birmingham

Charles Gore Henry Wakefield Ernest Barnes Leonard Wilson Lawrence Brown Hugh Montefiore Mark Santer John Sentamu David Urquhart

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Name	Montefiore, Hugh W.
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Date of birth	12 May 1920
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Date of death	13 May 2005
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