Mathew Moolakkatt Explained

Mathew Moolakkattu
Birth Date:February 27, 1953
Nationality:Indian
Archbishop of Kottayam
See:Kottayam
Honorific Prefix:Mar
Honorific Suffix:Metropolitan
Church:Syro-Malabar Catholic Church
Archdiocese:Kottayam
Predecessor:Kuriakose Kunnacherry
Rank:Metropolitan
Type:Metropolitan Archbishop
Appointed:12 December 2005
Ordination:27 December 1978
Consecrated By:John Paul II
Consecration:6 January 1999

Mar Mathew Moolakkatt (27 February 1953), an East Syriac knanaya Catholic Archbishop was born in Uzhavoor, India. Currently he is Archbishop of Knanaya Catholics of Kottayam Archeparchy, succeeding Kuriakose Kunnacherry upon his retirement, he is a member of the Order of St. Benedict. He was entrusted the whole Knanaya catholic community in 2006 January. His mother parish is St. Stephen's forane church uzhavoor. He was the synodal commission chairman of St. Thomas apostolic seminary Vadavathoor. He is one of the members of the permanent synod of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church[1]

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  1. Web site: Major Archbishop's Curia::Syro Malabar Church. 27 February 2016. 22 July 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200722150441/http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/syro-malabar-major-archbishop-curia.php. dead.