{{Short description|Knanaya Catholic Archbishop}} {{Notability|1=Biographies|date=May 2024}} {{Use Indian English|date=October 2015}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox Christian leader | name = Mathew Moolakkattu | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1953|2|27}} | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|df=yes|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} or {{Death-date and age|Month DD, YYYY|Month DD, YYYY}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = | nationality = Indian | other_names = | title = Archbishop of Kottayam | website = | 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), a Knanaya Catholic Archbishop was born in Uzhavoor, India. Currently he is Archbishop of Syro-Malabar Catholic Archeparchy of Kottayam, 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 [http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/parish.php?id=263 St. Stephen's forane church uzhavoor] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306012837/http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/parish.php?id=263 |date=6 March 2016 }}. He was the synodal commission chairman of [http://santhom.org/ St. Thomas apostolic seminary Vadavathoor]. He is one of the members of the permanent synod of the Syro Malabar Catholic Church<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/syro-malabar-major-archbishop-curia.php|title=Major Archbishop's Curia::Syro Malabar Church|access-date=27 February 2016|archive-date=22 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200722150441/http://www.syromalabarchurch.in/syro-malabar-major-archbishop-curia.php|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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==External links== * http://kottayamad.org/arch-bishop-of-kottayam/ {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190323173122/http://kottayamad.org/arch-bishop-of-kottayam/ |date=23 March 2019 }} * [https://www.knanayology.org/ Knanaya Resources] * [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bmool.html Mathew Moolakkattu] at Catholic-Hierarchy
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