Mouneer Anis

Mouneer Hanna Anis (born 8 April 1950) is an Egyptian Anglican Bishop. He is also professionally a physician and an amateur photographer and painter. He is married and has two sons.

Professional career

He earned his Bachelors of Medicine and Surgery at Cairo University, in 1974. He worked at Harpour 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 in 15 May 2000.^[1]

He has been the Bishop of Egypt since then^[2] and the Presiding Bishop of the Jerusalem and the Middle East, since 18 April 2007, being reelected in 2012.^[3]

Anis has been involved in the Anglican realignment, as a member and the current chairman of the Global South Primates Steering Committee.^[4] 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.

References

External links

• Archbishop Mouneer Anis Biography at the Diocese of Egypt Official Website