new province of Jerusalem and the Middle East was created, with four dioceses, and a Presiding Bishop elected from amongst them, but the Bishop of the Diocese of Jerusalem also bore the title Bishop in Jerusalem as a representative in the Holy Land of the Anglican Communion. In 2014 the synod debated this international representative role, and determined that it was sufficiently important to restore the status of an archbishopric, with the bishop to be re-styled Archbishop in Jerusalem. The Anglican Communion office subsequently re-titled the Bishop of Jerusalem in its directory as Archbishop in Jerusalem. This is a non-metropolitan archbishopric, although the holder is eligible (with the other diocesan bishops of the province) to be elected as metropolitan. Current archbishop The current, fifteenth, bishop of the diocese and Archbishop in Jerusalem is Hosam Naoum, who was previously Dean of St George's Cathedral, and on 14 June 2020 was consecrated a bishop, to serve as coadjutor Bishop of Jerusalem, to succeed Dawani as Archbishop in Jerusalem automatically upon his retirement in 2021. List of Anglican Bishops in Jerusalem Bishop in Jerusalem (under the joint auspices of the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Prussia): 1841–1845: Michael Alexander. Christ Church, Jerusalem dedicated in 1849. 1846–1879: Samuel Gobat. He opened 42 schools and ordained the first two Palestinian priests at Christ Church, Nazareth 1879–1881: Joseph Barclay 1881–1887: vacant Bishop in Jerusalem (under sole Anglican auspices): 1887–1914: George Blyth. Established the Palestine Native Church Council in 1905 and the Jerusalem and the East Mission 1908–1914: Llewellyn Gwynne, the sole Bishop suffragan of Khartoum (later the first Bishop of Egypt and the Sudan) 1914–1931: Rennie MacInnes 1932–1942: Francis Graham Brown 1943–1957: Weston Stewart Archbishop in Jerusalem: 1957–1969: Campbell MacInnes 1969–1974: George Appleton 1974–1976: Robert Stopford served as vicar general. The province/diocese were substantially reorganised during Stopford's time. Bishop in Jerusalem: 1976–1984: Faik Ibrahim Haddad, the first Palestinian Arab bishop. (Consecrated by Stopford, 29 August 1974, at St George's Cathedral, Jerusalem, to be coadjutor-bishop.) 1984–1997: Samir Kafity, the second Palestinian Arab bishop. He served two five-year terms as the Provincial President-Bishop and Primate. 1997–2007: Riah Abu El-Assal 2007–2014: Suheil Dawani (previously coadjutor bishop since 2006) Archbishop in Jerusalem: 2014–2021: Suheil Dawani 2021–present: Hosam Naoum Controversies The fourteenth bishop of the diocese was Suheil Dawani who was enthroned at St. George's Cathedral in Jerusalem on April 15, 2007, having previously been coadjutor bishop. He