His
Holiness Ignatius Zakka-I Iwas, the Patriarch of Antioch & All the
East and the Supreme head of the Universal Syriac Orthodox Church, has
conferred the ‘St. Aphrem the Syrian’ Decoration for ‘Chevalier’ to
Shri. Manoj Mathew Aryadanpakkal, member of the Chengalam St. Thomas JSO
Church in Kottayam diocese. The Patriarchal medal and certificate was
presented to Manoj Mathew by His Grace Mor Themotheos Thomas,
Metropolitan of Kottayam Diocese, after the Holy Mass on Saturday 3rd
March 2012 at the St. Joseph’s Cathedral, Kottayam.
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Manoj Mathew is well known as the author of innumerable number articles
in various Church magazines in the last twenty odd years and is still
continuing the same through ‘Visawasa Samrakashakan’, ‘The Journal of
Kottayam diocese’ and other Church magazines & souvenirs.
Since
1999, he is a member of the Managing Committee of the Jacobite Syrian
Christian Church and also represents his parish in the Kottayam diocesan
Council. He is also a central committee member of ‘Antiochya Viswasa
Samrakshana Samithy’ for many years now. Started as a Sunday School
teacher in 1982, he has represented the various organizations associated
with his parish as well as the Malankara Church since 1985. He is
presently the Joint Secretary of the Y.M.C.A., Chengalam Region.
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Manoj Mathew, son of late A M Mathew & Ponnamma Mathew, hails from
the Aryadanpakkal family of Chengalam near Kumarakom. He is married to
Sheeba and has two children Amal & Ajesh. After garnering the Master
degree in Science he has worked in a private firm for a few months and
later joined the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and is presently
working in its Kottayam office.
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