Metadata: Montefiore papers
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Lambeth Palace Library
- Holding institution (official language):
- Lambeth Palace Library
- Postal address:
- LondonGreater LondonUnited Kingdom
- Reference number:
- Monte
- Title:
- Montefiore papers
- Title (official language):
- Montefiore papers
- Creator/accumulator:
- Montefiore; Hugh William (1920-2005); Bishop of Birmingham
- Date(s):
- 1938/2005
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 7 boxes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of Hugh Montefiore, Bishop of Birmingham
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Hugh William Sebag-Montefiore was born in London in 1920 to a prominent Sephardi Jewish family. Converting to Anglicanism as a young adult, he used the abbreviated name ‘Montefiore’ thereafter. Educated at St John’s College, Oxford and Westcott House Theological College, Cambridge, Montefiore was ordained in 1949. He became the Dean of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a University Lecturer in Divinity. Montefiore was Vicar of Great St Mary's, Cambridge from 1963 to 1970, Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames from 1970 to 1978 and Bishop of Birmingham from 1978 to 1987. He died in 2005.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Montefiore, Hugh
- Subject terms:
- Christianity
- Access, restrictions:
- Open
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue.
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
