George of Polentz (born: c. 1478; died: 1550 in Balga) was bishop of Samland and Pomesania and a lawyer.
He studied law in Bologna and was private secretary to the papal Curia, then stood as a soldier in the service of Emperor Maximilian I.
[1] He forbade the widespread pagan worship of Perkūnas, symbolised by the goat buck, in the same year, repeated in 1540.
[1] When Albert gave his approval, bishop Polentz launched the Reformation in Prussia.
After Albrecht 1525 transformed the Teutonic State of Prussia into the secular Duchy of Prussia, Polentz invited a large number of Protestant clergy into the country, such as the reformer Ambrosius Feierabend, who had been exiled from Elbing in 1539.