| Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
| Level | File |
| Alt Ref No | Runcie/ACP/1988/19 |
| Extent | 1 file |
| Title | Jerusalem and the Middle East |
| Date | 1988 |
| Description | Includes correspondence on appointing Kenneth Pillar, Bishop of Hertford, as Archbishop Runcie's representative for the consecration of Cairo Cathedral, 25 April; correspondence with Samir Kafity, Bishop of Jerusalem of the Episcopal Church of Jerusalem and the Middle East, on unspecified difficulties and links between his Church and the Church of England and the Episcopal Church of the United States [ECUSA]; memorandum on John Brown, Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf, and restrictions on Christian worship in the Gulf states; copy of Runcie's statement to General Synod on 'The current situtation in the Holy Land', February 1988'; minutes from a meeting between Runcie and the ambassadors of Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan on chemical weapons, 30 November 1988; copy of statement issued by "the heads of the Christian Communities in Jerusalem", 22 January 1988; visit to Jerusalem by a delegation from ECUSA to investigate financing of schools, hosptials and homes; letter from Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelmwood, on his perceived failure of the Church to comment on the geo-political situation in the Middle East. |
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| Code | Name | Dates |
| GB/109/14719 | Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East; Diocese of Cyprus and the Gulf; 1976- | 1976- |
| GB/109/24287 | Pillar; Kenneth Harold (1924-2011); Bishop of Hertford | 1924-2011 |
| GB/109/24080 | Kafity; Samir Hanna (1933-2015); Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem | 1933-2015 |
| 1089 | Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America | |
| GB/109/19428 | Brown; John Edward (1930-); Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf | 1930- |
| GB/109/14460 | Beamish; Tufton Victor Hamilton (1917-1989); Baron Chelwood; Army officer and politician | 1917-1989 |