Michael Lewis (clergyman)

Michael Augustine Owen Lewis is the Anglican Bishop of the Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf^[1] in the province of Jerusalem and the Middle East. Within his diocese lie Cyprus, Iraq, and the whole of the Arabian Peninsula.

Lewis was born on 8 June 1953.^[2] He was educated at King Edward VI School, Southampton^[3] and Merton College, Oxford, where he read Oriental Studies (Hebrew, Aramaic, and Syriac)^[4] taking a BA in 1975 and MA in 1979. He then began formation for the priesthood Cuddesdon College, taking the Final Honour School of Theology in 1977.^[5]

He was ordained deacon in 1978 and priest in 1979. After a curacy at Christ the King, Salfords, Surrey, in the Diocese of Southwark he became Chaplain of Thames Polytechnic in 1980.^[6] He was Vicar of St Mary the Virgin, Welling, Southwark from 1984 to 1991 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^[7] On June 5, 2011, Lewis ordained the first female priest in the Middle East in Saint Christopher's Cathedral, Manama.^[8]

He is a member of the International Commission for Anglican-Orthodox Theological Dialogue, and is Bishop- Visitor of the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God, Convent of the Incarnation, Fairacres, Oxford.

Notes

1. ^ Inauguration Details
2. ^ ”Who’s Who 2007 London,A&C Black, 2006 ISBN 9780713672576
3. ^ Burke's details
4. ^ Paphos Anglican Church News
5. ^ ‘CYPRUS AND THE GULF, Bishop of’, Who's Who 2008, A & C Black, 2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2007 accessed 24 March 2008
6. ^ Crockfords(London, Church House 1995) ISBN 0715180886
7. ^ Announcement made
8. ^ http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=307289

Church of England titles
Preceded by Stephen Squires Venner	Bishop of Middleton 1999 –2007	Succeeded by Mark Davies
Preceded by Clive Handford	Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf 2007 –	Incumbent

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