C. V. Mathew
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{{Infobox Christian leader
| type = Bishop
| honorific-prefix = Bishop Dr.
| name = C V Mathew
| image =Bishop Dr. C. V Mathew.png
| enthroned =
| predecessor = Bishop Dr. M K Koshy
| successor = Bishop. Dr. Thomas Abraham
| consecration = 28 November 2008
| birth_place =
| church = St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India
| nationality = Indian
}}
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C. V. Mathew is a bishop of the St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India. He was the presiding bishop of the St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India from 2008{{Cite news |date=28 November 2008 |title=New Bishops consecrated |newspaper=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-kerala/New-Bishops-consecrated/article15350325.ece}} until his retirement on December 31, 2018.{{cite news|last=Aboko|first=Julius|title=Bishop Mathew to grace 11th Grad|url=http://www.ucu.ac.ug/thestandard/news/1-latest-news/615-bishop-mathew-to-grace-11th-grad.html|accessdate=31 January 2011|newspaper=The Standard - Uganda Christian University's community newspaper|date=6 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110211203802/http://ucu.ac.ug/thestandard/news/1-latest-news/615-bishop-mathew-to-grace-11th-grad.html#|archive-date=11 February 2011|url-status=dead}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.manoramaonline.com/global-malayali/us/2020/01/03/bishop-c-v-mathew-speaks-in-international-prayer-line.html|title=ബിഷപ്പ് സി.വി.മാത്യു ഐപിഎല്ലില് പ്രസംഗിക്കുന്നു|website=ManoramaOnline|language=ml|access-date=2020-01-20}} His area of specialization was in a Christian response to Hindu fundamentalism
Career
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Positions held by Mathew include
- Priest of St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India
- Episcopal
- Presiding Bishop of St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India from 2008 to 2018.
- President Bible Society of India - Kerala Auxiliary
- Chairman of the Evangelical Fellowship of India - the grouping of all evangelical churches, organisations and ministries in the country.
- Director of World Vision international Asia Pacific Region
- Deputy Chairman of the Lausanne Committee of world Evangelization
- Principal of Jubilee Memorial Bible College, Chennai.
- Academic Dean - India's largest evangelical seminary.
He has also served as the Vicar of different parishes of the St Thomas Evangelical church of India.
Writings
- Area of Light: The Indian Church and Modernisation by Charles Corwin, C. V. Mathew. Hardcover, ISPCK, {{ISBN|81-7214-166-1}} (81-7214-166-1)
- Jubilee Reflections: Essays on Selected Theological Issues by C.V. Mathew. Softcover, Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, The, {{ISBN|81-7214-591-8}} (81-7214-591-8) Mission in Context:
- Missiological Reflections Essays in Honour of Roger E. Hedlund and June Hedlund by I.S.P.C.K. (Organization), Roger E. Hedlund, Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies, C. V. Mathew, June Hedlund. Hardcover, MIIS/ISPCK, {{ISBN|81-7214-722-8}} (81-7214-722-8)
- The Saffron Mission: A Historical Analysis of Modern Hindu Missionary Ideologies and Practices by C. V. Mathew. Hardcover, Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, {{ISBN|81-7214-537-3}} (81-7214-537-3){{cite web|title=C. V. Mathew|url=http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=C.+V.+Mathew&qt=owc_search|work=WorldCat|accessdate=31 January 2011}}
Past students
During a stint at the Union Biblical Seminary, Pune, Mathew's students included Jonadob Nathaniel, the current director of translations of the Bible Society of India and B. Samuel Raja Sekhar, the current auxiliary secretary of the Bible Society of India Andhra Pradesh Auxiliary.C. V. Mathew, The Impact of the World in the World in Sowing Circle, A publication of the Bible Society of India, Volume 31, Number 1 (January–April 2015), pp.16-21.
References
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External links
- [http://www.steci.org St. Thomas Evangelical Church of India]
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Category:21st-century Indian bishops