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In Memoriam - The Revd Michael H Sellors
Monday, 22 February 2010 14:56
8 February (excerpt from Ecumenical News International) -- An Anglican church leader and ecumenical activist, the Revd Michael H Sellors, has been buried at Jerusalem's Mount Zion Protestant Cemetery.
Sellors died of heart failure on 27 January, and he was laid to rest on 2 February. He was 73, and had been in poor health for a few weeks preceding his death.
"Father Michael had a real passion for the Christian witness here, and that the Holy Land be a place which Christians, Muslims and Jews could all share," said Canon Robert Edmonds of St George's Cathedral.
Sellors worked tirelessly towards that end, said Edmonds noting that he was instrumental in creating an annual Prayer for Peace in August, following what is known as the second intifada, an uprising by Palestinians which began in September 2000, and led to a period of intensified Palestinian-Israeli violence.
Following his retirement, Sellors served as coordinator for a group known as the Heads of Churches of Jerusalem, which led him to working extensively for the local Christian community of the Holy Land. His tenure included the years of the intifada, when he spoke of deep challenges he saw Christian Arabs facing.
The Churches of the Holy Land and the wider ecumenical community join together in sadness at the passing ofr Fr Michael. We rejoice in the good works that he was able to create and promote during his life with us.