Samir Kafity, Date of Birth, Date of Death
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Palestinian clergy, lecturer at Birzeit University and Anglican bishop in Jerusalem
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About Samir Kafity
- Samir Hanna Kaffity (21 September 1932 – 21 August 2015) was a Palestinian Anglican bishop.He was educated at the American University of Beirut 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, then 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.
- 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.
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