Christianity in Bahrain

Alees Samaan, the former Bahraini ambassador to the United Kingdom, is a native Christian.

[2] [note 1] The majority of the Christians are originally from Iraq, Palestine and Jordan, with a small minority having lived in Bahrain for many centuries; the majority have been living as Bahraini citizens for less than a century.

There are also smaller numbers of native Christians who originally hail from Lebanon, Syria, and India.

An Eastern Orthodox parish in Bahrain was organized in 2000 by the late metropolitan Constantine Papastephanou of Baghdad and Kuwait (1969-2014), who also had ecclesiastical jurisdiction over Eastern Orthodox in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

They include people from Europe, North and South America, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.