He was educated at the University of Kent, Tübingen, Lancaster and London, from where he was awarded a PhD (SOAS) in Ottoman Syriac Studies.
After this he was the Archbishop of Canterbury's Advisor on Orthodox Affairs at Lambeth Palace and then senior curate at All Saints, Margaret Street, Westminster.
[4] Since 2002, he has been Vicar of St John's, Notting Hill, and Chairman of the Anglican and Eastern Churches Association.
[citation needed] He edited, together with the Roman Catholic priest, Father Michael Prior (1942-2004), Christians in the Holy Land (1994), and is the author of Antioch and Canterbury (Gorgias Press, 2005).
He is a director of Jerusalem and the Middle East Church Association (JMECA) and a Freeman of the City of London.