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unusual facts about St. Matthew's Churches


St. Matthew's Churches

It is primarily a mail-based ministry with an address in Tulsa, Oklahoma, with churches in New York and Houston.


Hey, Matthew

The song follows the lyrics of the father (Fialka) questioning his son, Matthew, as to what he sees on television (to which a young child's voice responds with such shows as Tom and Jerry and The A-Team) and what he wants to be when he grows up.

Kidangannoor

Writer, poet, journalist, and blogger John P. Matthew, who also hails from Puliyelil family was born in Kidangannoor, though he later settled in Bombay.

Leonti Mroveli

Apart from late annotations to the manuscripts of the "Georgian Chronicles", an archbishop of Ruisi named Leonti is mentioned only thrice: once in an 11th-century manuscript from Mount Athos; once in Euthymius of Athos’s translation of Chrysostom’s commentary to St. Matthew; and, most specifically, on a 1066 inscription from the Trekhvi caves in central Georgia.

McKay's Bunting

McKay's Bunting breeds on two islands in the Bering Sea, St. Matthew and Hall islands, and winters on the western coast of the U.S. state of Alaska.

St. Matthew's Church, Dunedin

In 1942 the artist Colin McCahon married Anne Hamblett in St Matthew's, the ceremony being performed by her father, the Reverend Hamblett, then the incumbent clergyman.

St. Matthew's German Evangelical Lutheran Church

The destroyed gallery stained glass windows were replaced by Franz Mayer & Co. of Munich, Germany and executed by the studios of George L. Payne of Patterson, New Jersey.

Professor Stefan Engels of Leipzig, Germany noted scholar on the works of Sigfrid Karg-Elert has performed many times on the 61 rank Austin Organ.

The remaining replacement gallery windows were by the studio of Franz Mayer & Co. of Munich, Germany represented by the studios of George L. Payne of Patterson, New Jersey.

In 1868, the church purchased its present site from Father Patrick O'Neill and contracted the Irish-born architect John Henry Devereux to design a gothic revival sanctuary with suggestions from Ludwig Müller, the congregation's Pastor.

The chancel contains the original 1872 Henry E. Sharp depictions of the Crucifixion and the four Evangelists.

The Gospel According to St. Matthew

Gospel of Matthew, one of the four Gospel accounts of the New Testament in the Bible.


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