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St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 noticed, he was not the first local Christian recognised as having this ministry in this new Protestant community, but as the first so recorded in official CMS reports (the detail is in the privately circulated Register of CMS Missionaries, dated 1904), his appointment represents an important step towards the indigenization of the Protestant Diocese. That it will be 17 years before Michael Kawar is made a deacon in the Anglican Church, and a further six years before he (and the Revd. Seraphim Boutaji) are priested 162 is a sign of the struggle for mutual acceptance across cultural boundaries that is such a mark of mature Christian mission development; this is a story worthy of much study and reflection that cannot be told here. We shall never know the full number of local Christian catechists, evangelists, pastors and teachers, whose lives shaped the Arab Anglican Church in the years following Bishop Alexander’s arrival; and therefore readers who are frustrated at the brevity of the descriptions that follow are encouraged to research the matter further. For those familiar with Arabic, the two-‐volume history by Archdeacon Rafiq Farah must be a primary source (details are in the bibliography), whilst the CMS archive contains significantly greater amounts of original source material than the present writer has been able to cover in making this survey. This archive is, of course, mainly written from the point of view of the Western missionaries and their organisational priorities rather than that of the indigenous Christian, but there is first-‐hand material in Arabic among the papers. There are, no doubt, other sourcesalso, available in the Middle East as well as in Europe, that would repay study should time be available to someone with the appropriate linguistic skills. 162 The mentioned ordination to the diaconate took place at the newly consecrated Christ Church in Nazareth in 1871 (Miller 2012), but note that Alexander had previously ordained some Hebrew Christians in Jerusalem. 294
St Francis Magazine Vol 8, No 2 | April 2012 4.1 Two lists of local leaders, 1904 & 1920 A beginning can be made, though, from the CMS archives, for they contain two valuable lists of Arab Anglican clergy. One was published around 1904 and another dated 1920, and they give a framework for looking at those who followed in the footsteps of Michael Kawar. The first list comes from the previously mentioned Register of all CMS personnel, from its earliest days until 1904. The order of names here follows that of the register, and each entry gives some outline of origin, which parishes served, and ordination dates. Further details for some of those shown here are given in the biographies to be found later in this article. Spellings in English can never exactly match the Arabic, but the names are as shown in the register. Name Original community & serving church if shown Ordination dates D= Deacon P=Priest Seraphim Boutaji from Acre, a Greek D 1871, P 1877 Catholic Michael Kawar from Nazareth, D 1871, P 1877 Greek Catholic Chalil Jamal from Nazareth, D 1874, P 1877 Greek Catholic Nasir Odeh No detail shown D 1879, P 1880 Ibrahim Baz Greek Catholic: D 1884, P 1886 Jerusalem Murad alHaddad Greek Catholic: D 1884, P 1886 Haifa Yusef Zorab From nr. Sidon: Ramleh, Gaza D 1889 295
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