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{{short description|Israeli Palestinian Anglican bishop (born 1937)}}
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'''Riah Hanna Abu El-Assal''' ({{lang-ar|رياح حنا أبو العسل}}, {{transl|ar|Riyāḥ Ḥannā abū 'l-ʿAsal}}, {{lang-he|ריאח אבו אלעסל}}; born 6 November 1937 in [[Nazareth]]) is an
==History==
Abu El-Assal graduated from [[Nazareth]] [[Baptist]] school where he also taught. While at [[Nazareth]] he was a member of the PLP, the [[Progressive List for Peace]] – a joint Jewish-Arab political party which, while existing only for eight years (1984–1992) is considered to have broken many previously sacrosanct taboos and profoundly influenced subsequent Israeli politics.{{Citation needed|date=September 2010}} During his time in Nazareth he was vicar of [[Christ Church, Nazareth]].
In 1997, Abu El-Assal became the thirteenth [[Anglican Bishop of Jerusalem]] and head of the [[Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East]] until his retirement on 31 March 2007 at the prescribed retirement age of 70 years, though he was only seven and a half months short of his 70th birthday.<ref name="jd">[http://www.j-diocese.org/about_history?th=2 History of the Episcopal Church in the Holy Land, The Episcopal Diocese of Jerusalem] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090808220124/http://www.j-diocese.org/about_history?th=2 |date=2009-08-08 }}</ref>
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Abu El-Assal has traveled widely, raising support and finances for the Bishop Riah Educational Campus and other community programmes with a vision of peace in [[The Holy Land]].
Abu El-Assal traveled to [[Australia]] in 2006 where he attended the
==Family==
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==See also==
*[[Faik Haddad]]
*[[Palestinian Christian]]
*[[St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem]]
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