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George Abbot (29 October 1562 – 4 August 1633) was an English divine who was Archbishop of Canterbury from 1611 to 1633. [3] [5] [6] He also served as the fourth chancellor of the University of Dublin , from 1612 to 1633.
Jul 28, 2009 · Historians and biographers of George Abbot traditionally have viewed King James's appointment of the forty-eight year old bishop of London to the archbishopric of Canterbury on 4 March 1611 as both unexpected and unpopular.
- S. M. Holland
- 1987
George Abbot. (1562-1633), Archbishop of Canterbury. Sitter associated with 22 portraits. George Abbot studied, and then taught, at Balliol College, Oxford. He was chosen Master of University College in 1597, and appointed Dean of Westminster in 1600.
Jun 27, 2024 · When George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, accidentally shot and killed a gamekeeper in 1621, questions were immediately asked about whether the accident had rendered him excommunicate and whether he could, consequently, remain in his post.
George Abbot, like Bancroft, was a doughty defender of episcopacy as was shown by his efforts to reestablish it in Scotland prior to his accession to Canterbury.
George Abbot and the Translation. George Abbot was appointed to the Second Oxford Company which had responsibility for the Four Gospels, [Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John], The Acts of the Apostles, and the book of Revelation.
THE LIFE OF Archbishop ABBOT. GEORGE ABBOT, was born October 29th, 1562, at Guildford, in Surrey, of very wor∣thy parents, remarkably distinguished by their steady zeal for the Protestant Religion, for their living long, and happily together, and for their singular felicity in their children. a 1.1.
