C. V. Mathew

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 until his retirement on December 31, 2018. His area of specialization was in a Christian response to Hindu fundamentalism

Career

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, Jubilee Reflections: Essays on Selected Theological Issues by C.V. Mathew. Softcover, Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, The, Mission in Context:Missiological Reflections Essays in Honour of Roger E. Hedlund and June Hedlund by I.S.P.C.K., Roger E. Hedlund, Mylapore Institute for Indigenous Studies, C. V. Mathew, June Hedlund. Hardcover, MIIS/ISPCK, The Saffron Mission: A Historical Analysis of Modern Hindu Missionary Ideologies and Practices by C. V. Mathew. Hardcover, Indian Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge,

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.