Robert Montgomerie (archbishop)

Robert Montgomerie of Hessilhead (c. 1530–1609) was a prominent Scottish clergyman in post-Reformation Scotland who served as Protestant Archbishop of Glasgow from 1581 to 1588.

He studied at Glasgow University and graduated MA.

[1] At the first General Assembly of the Church of Scotland he was recognised as an apt person to preach and began a series of positions in the Church of Scotland.

[2] In 1581 he was created Archbishop of Glasgow in place of the late James Boyd of Trochrig.

Montgomerie was succeeded in 1588 by William Erskine (archbishop)[3] He was minister of Symington from 1587 to 1589 when he translated to Stewarton.