Installed 1 December 2007 Name Michael Lewis Consecration 1999 Spouse Julia Lennox (m. 1979) Predecessor Clive Handford | Parents John & Jean Pope Education Merton College, Oxford Denomination Anglican Role Bishop of Middleton | |
Other posts Bishop of Middleton (1999–2007) Ordination 1978 (deacon); 1979 (priest) Born 8 June 1953 (age 70) ( 1953-06-08 ) Diocese Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf | ||
Rev dr michael lewis
Michael Augustine Owen Lewis (born 8 June 1953) is an English Anglican bishop. He is the Anglican Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf in the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. Within his diocese lie Cyprus, Iraq, and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.
Lewis was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton and Merton College, Oxford, where he read Oriental Studies (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac) taking a BA in 1975 and MA in 1979. He was formed for the priesthood at Cuddesdon Theological College, taking his second Oxford degree in the Final Honour School of Theology in 1977.
He was ordained deacon in 1978 and priest in 1979. After a curacy at Christ the King, Salfords, Surrey, in the Diocese of Southwark he became Chaplain of Thames Polytechnic in 1980. He was Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Welling, Southwark from 1984 to 1991 when he became Team Rector of Worcester South East and later Rural Dean of Worcester and Canon of Worcester Cathedral. Ordination to the Episcopate followed in 1999 when he was appointed to the Suffragan Bishopric of Middleton. In 2007 he was translated to Cyprus and the Gulf On 5 June 2011, Lewis ordained the first female priest in the Middle East in Saint Christopher's Cathedral, Manama.
He is a member of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue and of the Anglican Consultative Council, and is Bishop-Visitor of the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God, Convent of the Incarnation, Fairacres, Oxford.