Anglican Bishops in Jerusalem

Anglican-Lutheran Protestant Bishop of Jerusalem (1841 – 1886)
Anglican Bishops only after 1887
Archbishopric 1957 – 1974, 2017 –

1841 – 1845
First Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Michael Solomon Alexander

 

1846 – 1879
Second Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Samuel Gobat

 

1879 – 1881
Third Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Joseph Barclay

 
 
 

1887 – 1914
Fourth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – George Francis Popham Blyth
 
 

1914 – 1931

Fifth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Rennie MacInnes

1932 – 1942

Sixth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – George Francis Graham Brown

1943 – 1957

Seventh Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Weston Henry Stewart

1957 – 1968

Eighth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Campbell MacInnes (Archbishop)

1958 – 1976

First Arab Bishop: Najib A. Cubain – Bishop of Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, but did not have any jurisdiction over the See of Jerusalem. However, his offices were at St. George’s Cathedral and he had jurisdiction over Jordanian controlled East Jerusalem.

1969 – 1974
Ninth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – George Appleton (Archbishop)

 

1974 – 1976

Tenth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Robert Stopford, served as Vicar General

Between 1974 – 1976, under the supervision of the Vicar General, Robert Stopford, the Archbishopric was completely restructured. The Diocese of Jerusalem was established to include Palestine, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon and Syria, with Jerusalem as its center, as part of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East. The four dioceses rotated the responsibility of the Bishop President and Synodical Leadership.

1976 – 1984

Eleventh Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Faeq Ibrahim Haddad (First Arab Bishop of Jerusalem)

1984 – 1998

Twelfth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Samir Hanna Kafity

1998 – 2007

Thirteenth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal

2007 – 2021

Fourteenth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem – Suheil Salman Ibrahim Dawani (Archbishop 2017 – 2021)

2021 –

Fifteenth Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem and Anglican Archbishop in Jerusalem – Hosam Elias Naoum