Type: | Bishop |
Honorific-Prefix: | His Excellency |
Abraham D. Mattam | |
Honorific-Suffix: | VC |
Bishop Emeritus of Satna | |
Church: | Syro-Malabar Catholic Church |
See: | Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Satna |
Term: | 1968–1999 |
Predecessor: | none |
Ordination: | 15 March 1950 |
Birth Date: | 21 November 1922 |
Birth Place: | Narianganam, India |
Death Place: | Edappally, India |
Nationality: | Indian |
Previous Post: | prelate |
Successor: | Mar Mathew Vaniakizhkkel, Mar Joseph Kodakallil |
Abraham D. Mattam (21 November 1922 – 16 April 2019)[1] was a bishop of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church.
Mattam was born in Narianganam, India and ordained a priest on 15 March 1950 from the religious order of Vincentian Congregation (Institute of Consecrated Life). He was appointed Archiepiscopal Exarch of Satna on 29 July 1968. He was appointed bishop to the Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Satna on 26 February 1977 and ordained bishop on 30 April 1977. He retired from the diocese on 18 December 1999.