In office 2007-2017 Consecration May 15, 2000 Predecessor Clive Handford | Role Bishop Name Mouneer Anis Ordination 1998 | |
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Church Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East Archdiocese Episcopal / Anglican Province of Jerusalem & Middle East Diocese Episcopal / Anglican Diocese of Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa See Egypt with North Africa and the Horn of Africa Previous post Director of Harpur Memorial Hospital, Menouf, Egypt - Administrator of the Diocese of Egypt | ||
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Mouneer Hanna Anis (born 8 April 1950) is an Egyptian Anglican bishop. He has been Bishop of Egypt since 2000 and was Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East from 2007 to 2017. He is also professionally a physician and an amateur photographer and painter. He is married and has two sons.
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Professional career
He earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Cairo University in 1974. He worked at Harpur Memorial Hospital in Menouf from 1979 to 2000, as Resident until 1989 and as Director since 1980.
He received a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1986. He was also given a Certificate in Hospital Management and Administrations from the School of Public Health of the University of California in the United States in 1993.
Religious career
Anis decided to follow religious life at a relatively late age, being ordained an Anglican priest in 1999. He went to serve at All Saints Cathedral, in Cairo. He later became Administrator of the Diocese of Egypt. He was elected by the Diocesan Synod of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East as the third Egyptian national Bishop of the Diocese of Egypt. He went to do theological and practical training at Moore Theological College, in Sydney, Australia, at the Diocese of Canterbury, in England, and at Nashotah House, in the United States. Anis' consecration took place on 15 May 2000.
He has been the Bishop of Egypt since then and the Presiding Bishop of the Jerusalem and the Middle East, since 18 April 2007, being reelected in 2012.
Anis has been involved in the Anglican realignment, as a member and the current chairman of the Global South Primates Steering Committee. He supported the inception of the Anglican Church in North America in 2009. He decided not to attend the first Global Anglican Future Conference, held in Jerusalem, in 2008, but he attended the Global South meeting in Singapore, in 2010.