Do Anglicans have a historic church in Jerusalem?

Aidan · Feb 20, 2016

i know that the different Catholic denominations are represented in the Holy Land, is Anglicanism there?

zimkhitha · Feb 22, 2016

What is going on in Jerusalem? Forgive the ignorance, I've been limiting internet time due to Lent.

Botolph · Feb 22, 2016

http://www.j-diocese.org/

The Diocese of Jerusalem covers five countries and is home to almost thirty parishes. Our healthcare and education ministries are active and growing across the region with the provision of hospitals, clinics, rehabilitation centers, and schools. Alongside these ministries the Diocesan Peace and Reconciliation department continues to work at strengthening the interfaith dialogue with our fellow Jews and Muslims. Our Kids4Peace programme in turn strives to educate the next generation in a language of tolerance and acceptance.

rakovsky · Jul 12, 2016

I think that the Anglican Church started there in the 19th c. as a missionary effort. It had some success bringing in members of the native Orthodox society because the Anglicans were far better funded and able to provide higher quality services than the Greek Orthodox who were much poorer and were living under Turkish rule. An example of the role of Anglican schools for native non-Anglican Christians is the famous Palestinian writer Edward Said. His family was Orthodox and he was sent as a child to St. George's Anglican school in Palestine. He went on to study at Victoria college in Egypt and became a professor of English literature at major universities in the US. Said himself ultimately became an agnostic, I think.

...a proposal for the establishment of a permanent post in Jerusalem by the Church Missionary Society was under consideration as early as 1821.
the first permanent station was established in Jerusalem in 1833.

The first Bishop, The Right Rev'd Michael Solomon Alexander, arrived in 1841. In 1845, the first Anglican Church (Christ Church, Jaffa Gate) of the city was dedicated. The Bishopric started as an Anglo-Prussian union in Jerusalem for Anglicans and Lutherans.

The second Bishop, The Right Rev'd Samuel Gobat, ministered mainly among local Christians: he opened 42 schools and ordained the first two Palestinian priests.
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http://www.j-diocese.org/index.php?lang=en&page=1296659988562

Project Canterbury
After the Tractarians
by Marcus Donovan
From the Recollections of Athelstan Riley: Philip Allan, 1933.
XIII. Ecclesiastical Politics

Relations with the East, discussions with Rome, negotiations with other Christian Communions, play a large part in the story of the Revival...

The work on the Anglican side has necessarily been slow. Dr. Neale and his friends founded the Eastern Churches Association as far back as 1864. Realizing the affinities between the East and ourselves, they doubtless hoped for speedy intercommunion. But there were serious set-backs. The first was the anomalous position of the Anglican-Lutheran bishopric at Jerusalem which, it will be remembered, was one of the factors that occasioned the loss of Newman. Canon Liddon had visited Palestine and criticized in The Guardian the practice adopted of proselytizing from the Orthodox Church. It could not be expected that happy relations could exist while this policy persisted.
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The above essay goes on to say that the COE eventually put off proselytizing efforts and attained a much more ecumenical outlook.

Project Canterbury
Historical Contact of the Eastern Orthodox and Anglican Churches. A review of the relations between the Orthodox Church of the East and the Anglican Church since the time of Theodore of Tarsus
By William Chauncey Emhardt New York: Department of Missions and Church Extension of the Episcopal Church, 1920.

RELATIONS IN NINETEENTH CENTURY

It seems necessary at this point, to make one reference to the regrettable undertaking known as the "Jerusalem Episcopate"... It was decided that the future Bishop of Jerusalem should be under the Archbishop of Canterbury, while he was to be elected alternately by the English and the Germans...
[Bp] Alexander's successor, Samuel (1848-1879), applied himself to an effort to proselytize the Orthodox, not by teaching and persuasion, but with money and other illicit means.
Strong protests were made against this league of the Episcopalians and the Lutherans and especially against the proselytizing of the Orthodox, not only by the Patriarchs of the East, but also by the English themselves.
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Bishop Barclay was succeeded by the English Bishop Blyth of blessed memory (died October 23, 1915), who retained his office for twenty-seven years. He was an apostolic man, and conscientiously avoided even the appearance of proselytism. He even made efforts to strengthen the Orthodox Church [in Palestine and elsewhere]...
To his efforts is due the foundation of' Orthodox Churches in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. The consecration in 1898 of the Anglican Church of Saint George the Martyr at Jerusalem, by the Bishop of Salisbury, in the presence of two archbishops, acting as delegates from the Patriarch, seemed to betoken the removal of the last vestige of suspicion.
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http://anglicanhistory.org/orthodoxy/emhardt_historical1920.html

Frantzman, S., Glueckstadt, B. W., and Kark, R., “The Anglican Church in Palestine and Israel: Colonialism, Arabization and Land ownership”, Middle Eastern Studies 47
(2011), pp. 101-126.

Upon his death in 1848 Bishop Alexander was succeeded by Samuel Gobat (Bishop 1846-1879) in 1846, who was a French speaking Swiss citizen. Gobat’s “official policy was to turn the emphasis of his [missionary] work in Jerusalem away from the Jews and toward the proselytization of the Eastern Christians” due to the seeming failure of the London Jews Society to gain converts. His vehicle for this work would be the

CMS. The CMS began work in Palestine in 1851 and schools were established in Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Beit Jala, Ramla, Nablus, Rafidah, Nisf al-Jabal, Zababida, Burkin and Shefar'am and Jaffa.
Churches were opened for converts from the Eastern and Catholic faiths, including Christ’s Church in Nazareth (1871), St. Paul’s next to New Gate in Jerusalem (1874), St. Phillips (1882) in Nablus, and St. Andrews (1888) in Ramallah.

Table 1. Population of Anglicans in Palestine 1851-1922
1853 Consul Finn 52
1922 British Census 1,279

In 1906, in a move that would have widespread consequences, several institutions were handed over to local community of Arab-Anglicans which then came under the control of the Palestine Native Church Council. This organization was independent in many respects from the Bishop. Relations between local Arabs who were members of the Native Church Council and the CMS, which was its parent organization, were far from ideal: “The English missionaries treated the native church members and clergy as children in need of guidance and supervision, while the locals wished to run their own affairs and did not regard it as their duty to engage in proselytizing.”22

The CMS, which had been Bishop Gobat’s main vehicle for the conversion of Arab Christians to the Anglican faith, remained deeply rooted in education and had produced a significant group of Arab-Anglicans. The JEM and the bishopric meanwhile had also made inroads into the Arab community and had established the physical presence at St. George’s to command an ever-growing community.
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It's important to note that the Anglican Church later took a strong position against intentional proselytizing of Orthodox. The book Pan-Anglican Congress, 1908, Volume 6 talks about such efforts made by the Anglican bishop in Jerusalem.
https://books.google.com/books?id=8...izing jerusalem OR palestine orthodox&f=false

Christina · Jul 13, 2016

http://www.j-diocese.org - website of the episcopal diocese of Jerusalem, part of the Anglican Communion
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Bishop_in_Jerusalem
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Episcopal_Church_in_Jerusalem_and_the_Middle_East

Scrutinizer · Sep 30, 2018

There are two very active Anglican churches in Jerusalem.
St. George and Christ Church

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