Michael Lewis (bishop)
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The Rt Revd Michael Lewis MA(Oxon) |
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| Bishop in Cyprus and the Gulf | |
| Diocese | Anglican Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf |
| Installed | 1 December 2007 |
| Predecessor | Clive Handford |
| Other posts |
Bishop of Middleton (1999–2007) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1977 (deacon) 1979 (priest) |
| Consecration | 1999 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 8 June 1952 |
| Denomination | Anglican |
| Parents | John & Jean (née Pope) |
| Spouse | Julia (nee Lennox) (m. 1979) |
| Children | 2 sons (one deceased); 1 daughter |
| Alma mater | Merton College, Oxford |
Michael Augustine Owen Lewis (born 8 June 1952) 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 including the Arab states of the Persian Gulf.
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 1974 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 1977 and priest in 1979. After a curacy at Christ the King, Salfords, Surrey, in the Diocese of Southwark he became Chaplain of Thames Polytechnic the same year of his presbyterial ordination. He was Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Welling, Southwark from 1984 to 1992 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.
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