He retired in January 2018, but continues to serve as Bishop Emeritus, and remains a member of the Church Council of ELCJHL.

Munib Younan was born into a native Jerusalemite family of Assyrian origin that converted to Protestantism.

Younan is the patron of Gospel Riders Jerusalem - a motorcycle club operating in cooperation with Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission.

[4] Younan has been actively engaged in the Middle East Council of Churches, in various positions since 1985 including as the president of its Evangelical Family until 2018.

Younan is also a founding member of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), serving as the chair of Local Reference Group since 2002.

[5] On 15 December 2009, he signed the Kairos Palestine Document along with 12 other Palestinian patriarchs and heads of church from other Christian denominations.

It calls for international support and "peace with the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital".

In Witnessing for Peace: In Jerusalem and in the World, published by Augsburg Fortress Press in 2003,[10] Younan presents the historical and social context of the Palestinian situation, beginning with the not-well-known story of Arab Christianity and his own indigenous Assyrian background.