On Sunday 29 August, Archdeacon Adrian Wilkinson met with the Revd Fr Mathew K Mathew at St Michael’s Church in Blackrock. Fr Mathew is a priest of the Malankara (Indian) Orthodox Syrian Church and is the newly appointed vicar to their congregations in Waterford, Galway and Cork. He is based in Waterford and was meeting the congregation and presiding at his first service in the church that afternoon.
The Venerable Adrian Wilkinson, Archdeacon of Cork, Cloyne and Ross, together with Fr Mathew K Mathew and Bijoy, a member of the Indian Orthodox congregation.
Fr Mathew is from Kerala in south…
