George Montaigne (or Mountain; 1569 – 24 October 1628) was an English bishop.

Life

Montaigne was born in 1569 at Cawood, Yorkshire. He was educated at

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, matriculating at Michaelmas 1586, graduating B.A. 1590,

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1593, B.D. 1602,

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1607, and holding a fellowship at Queens' 1592–1611. He was ordained deacon and priest at

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in 1593. In 1597 he was chaplain to

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, on his expedition against Cadiz. He became rector of

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in 1602. He was

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in 1607, and in 1608

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and chaplain to

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. He was

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in 1610. He was appointed

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in 1617 and was consecrated on 14 December that year by Archbishop George Abbot, and co-consecrated by the

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Archbishop of Split Marco Antonio de Dominis. He was appointed Lord High Almoner in 1619,

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in 1621 and

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in 1627. When in 1628 the archbishopric of York fell vacant by the death of

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, Montaigne is said to have secured the nomination by remarking to

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, "Hadst thou faith as a grain of mustard seed, thou wouldst say unto this ''mountain'', be removed into that ''sea'' ee (). He was duly elected to the archbishopric on 1 July, but died in London on 24 October 1628, and was buried in Cawood Church. He was one of the

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group of bishops who arose in opposition to the general

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that prevailed in the Church of England in the early seventeenth century. One manifestation of his views were prosecutions in his London diocese for the disrespectful wearing of hats in services.

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