Samir Kafity

Samir Hanna Kaffity (21 September 1932 – 21 August 2015) was a Palestinian Anglican bishop.[1]

He was educated at the American University of Beirut[2] and ordained in 1959. He was parish priest to the Palestinian congregation at St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem and then held further incumbencies at St Andrew's Ramallah, St Peter's, Bir Zeit,[3] and All Saints, Beirut. From 1977 he was a Lecturer at Birzeit University and then Archdeacon of Jerusalem. In 1982 he became Coadjutor Bishop of Jerusalem and two years later the Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem.[4] Between 1984 and 1997, Kaffity was the second Palestinian Arab bishop. He served two five-year terms as the Provincial President-Bishop and Primate.

Since 1999, he had been Bishop-in-Residence at St Bartholomew's Episcopal Church, Poway, in the American state of California. Kafity died at his home in San Diego, California, on 21 August 2015.

See also

• Faik Haddad
• Palestinian Christians

Notes

1. Encyclopaedia of the Palestinian Problem Archived 2009-04-08 at the Wayback Machine
2. Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 978-0-7136-8555-8
3. Crockford's Clerical Directory Lambeth, Church House, 1975 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
4. Diocesan web-site Archived 2009-08-08 at the Wayback Machine

Anglican Communion titles
Preceded by Faik Haddad	Bishop of Jerusalem 1984–1997	Succeeded by Riah Abu El-Assal