Munib Younan

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Munib Younan (2015)

Munib A. Younan (also Junan; Arabic منيب يونان, DMG Munīb Yūnān ; * September 18, 1950 in Jerusalem ) was Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land (ELCJHL) from 1998 to 2017 . The Palestinian was President of the Lutheran World Federation from 2010 to 2017 .

Life

Younan comes from a Palestinian family with Greek roots and was born in East Jerusalem , where his Beersheba- born father fled in 1948 due to the Palestinian War. After graduating from Al-Ahlia College in Ramallah in 1968, he studied theology at the Finnish Luther Opisto College in Järvenpää and at the University of Helsinki . In 1976 he graduated from there with a study for election by Deuterojesaja with a Master of Arts.

In 1976 he was ordained by Bishop Daoud Haddad in Jerusalem and was then vicar at the Jerusalem Church of the Redeemer and pastor in Beit Jala (1979–1984) and Ramallah (1984–1998). From 1990 to 1998 Younan was President of the ELCJHL Synod. On January 5, 1998, he was appointed third bishop of the ELCJHL in the Jerusalem Church of the Redeemer.

Younan was the first to translate the Confessio Augustana into Arabic and was a leader in various dialogue initiatives between the three monotheistic religions in Palestine. Younan is also involved in the peace dialogue between Jews and Arabs. Along with other high Christian dignitaries in the Holy Land such as the emeritus Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah , he is one of the signatories of the so-called Kairos-Palestine Document , in which the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories condemned as a “sin against God” and the urgency of peace and justice for Palestine is remembered. The document refers to a similar call made by South African churches in 1985 against the apartheid regime there.

Younan was elected Vice President of the Lutheran World Federation in 2003 and has held the office of President as successor to Mark Hanson since the organization’s general assembly in Stuttgart in 2010 . He was followed in 2017 by the Nigerian Musa Panti Filibus .

Younan has been married to Suad Yacoub since 1980. The couple has three children.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ President in dispute. In: Domradio.de of July 24, 2010, accessed on November 5, 2015
  2. ↑ Interview with Bishop Munib Younan, President of the Lutheran World Federation. In: Spiegel Online from February 24, 2014, accessed on November 5, 2015
  3. ↑ Palestinian Younan new Lutheran President evangelisch.de of July 24, 2010.
  4. ↑ Nigerian Archbishop Filibus is the new LWF President. Retrieved July 28, 2017 .
  5. ↑ http://www.npf.or.jp/english/
personal data
SURNAME Younan, Munib
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Younan, Munib A .; Junan, Munib; منيب يونان (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Palestinian Evangelical Lutheran minister and bishop
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Jerusalem