Dawani graduated with a B.A. at the
Near East School of Theology in
Beirut,
Lebanon, in 1976. He was ordained an Anglican deacon in 1976 and a priest in 1978. He served for eight years at St. Andrew's parish in
Ramallah, and St. Peter's in
Bir Zeit,
West Bank. He moved with his family to the
United States in 1985, to study at
Virginia Theological Seminary, where he completed his M.A. and began work on his Doctor of Ministry (D.Min). He was recalled to his diocese in 1987, and became priest at St. John's Episcopal Church in
Haifa,
Israel. He went to serve once again at the
Ramallah and
Bir Zeit parishes, from 1992 to 1997. He was elected Secretary General of the
Diocese of Jerusalem in 1997. He became then Canon for the Arabic-speaking congregation at
St. George's Cathedral, in
Jerusalem. He went to serve for a third time in
Ramallah, from 2004 to 2007. He became Coadjutor Bishop on 15 June 2005 and was consecrated on 6 January 2006. He was enthroned as Bishop of Jerusalem on 15 April 2007. The same year he completed his D.Min at Virginia Seminary. Dawani became Archbishop in Jerusalem in 2014 when synod voted to upgrade the concurrent role of representative of the Anglican Communion in the
Holy Land from a bishopric to an archbishopric, as it had been previously from 1957 to 1976. He was elected Primate of the
Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East on 17 May 2017, for a two and a half year mandate, and served until the autumn of 2019. He retired in 2021, having reached the compulsory episcopal retirement age of 70. ==Views==