Career
He is also professionally a physician and an amateur photographer and painter. He earned his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery at Cairo University in 1974. He worked at Harpour Memorial Hospital in Menouf from 1979 to 2000, as Resident until 1989 and as Director since 1980.
He received a Diploma of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1986.
He was also given a Certificate in Hospital Management and Administrations from the School of Public Health of the University of California in the United States in 1993. Anis decided to follow religious life at a relatively late age, being ordained an Anglican priest in 1999.
He went to serve at All Saints Cathedral, in Cairo. He later became Administrator of the Diocese of Egypt.
He went to do theological and practical training at Moore Theological College, in Sydney, Australia, at the Diocese of Canterbury, in England, and at Nashotah House, in the United States.
Anis" consecration took place on 15 May 2000. He has been the Bishop of Egypt since then and the Presiding Bishop of the Jerusalem and the Middle East, since 18 April 2007, being reelected in 2012. Anis has been involved in the Anglican realignment, as a member and the current chairman of the Global South Primates Steering Committee.
He decided not to attend the first Global Anglican Future Conference, held in Jerusalem, in 2008, but he attended the Global South meeting in Singapore, in 2010.