The Assam Tribune online
Guwahati, Monday, November 28, 2005
STATE
First Assamese Catholic priest to work in Nepal
GUWAHATI, Nov 27 Father Mathew Das (Mintu), the first Catholic priest from among the ethnic Assamese people will go to Nepal to work there.
Father Mathew joined the Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in 1992 and was ordained as a priest at Gossaigaon on November 20, 2005.
He was born in North Guwahati in 1970. He did his school studies at Tezpur, Ambagaon and Gossaigaon and higher studies in Bettiah, Bihar and Kathmandu, Nepal. After that he began to teach at Kathmandu. During these years he and his brother decided to become Christians. When he was at Kathmandu, Mathew felt a call to become a Jesuit Priest and he joined the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1992. He graduated in philosophy at Janadeepa Vidyapeeth, Pune, in theology at Vidyajyoti College, Delhi and earned the Bachelor of Education degree at Namchi, Sikkim.
Most of his relatives who remain Hindus are proud of one of their members offering himself to become a Catholic priest and to work in Nepal. Thirty of them were present at his priestly ordination at Gossaigaon and offered him to the persons who had come from Nepal. His cousins husband, municipal corporator Mohan Medhi has been assisting him.
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