Mouneer Anis
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The Most Reverend Mouneer Anis |
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| President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East | |
| Church | Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East |
| In office | 2007–2017 |
| Predecessor | Clive Handford |
| Other posts | Bishop of Egypt (2000–present) |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 1998 (deacon) 1999 (priest) by Ghais Malek |
| Consecration | 15 May 2000 by Ghais Malek |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
8 April 1950 Shebin El Kom, Monofia, Egypt |
| Previous post | Director of Harpur Memorial Hospital, Menouf, Egypt - Administrator of the Diocese of Egypt |
Mouneer Hanna Anis (born 8 April 1950) is an Egyptian Anglican bishop. He has been Bishop of Egypt since 2000 and Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East since 2007. He is also professionally a physician and an amateur photographer and painter. He is married and has two sons.
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.
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.
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