Richard Ernest Matera

Background

Matera, Richard Ernest was born on July 13, 1925 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States. Son of Charles Carlo and Philomena Antoinette Cecile (Liberatore) Matera.

Education

Student, Trinity College, Hartford, 1943. Student, Biarritz American University, France, 1945. Bachelor magna cum laude, Colgate University, 1949.

Master of Divinity, Andover Newton Theological School, 1953. Doctor of Divinity, California Christian University, 1981.

Career

Director youth work Quincy Point (Massachusetts) Congressional Church, 1949-1950. Pastor, director vacation church school Panton and Addison (Vermont) churches, 1950. Minister Thompson (Connecticut) Hill Church, 1950-1951, Waldo Congressional Church, Brockton, Massachusetts, 1951-1954, Center Congressional Church, Orange, 1954-1959.

Senior minister 1st Congressional United Church of Christ, Berea, Ohio, 1959-1971, St. Paul Community Church, Homewood, Illinois, 1971-1976. Interim minister United Church Christ, Chicago, 1978-1999. Minister Immanuel United Church of Christ, Bensenville, Illinois, from 1999.

President Millers River Council Churches, 1957-1958. Member department church world responsibility Massachusetts Council Churches, 1957-1959. Chairman international affairs committee of state social action committee United Church of Christ, 1962-1963, delegate General Synod, Chicago, member peace priority task force Western Reserve Association, 1967-1970, member commission on church and ministry Ohio conference, 1968-1971, chairman department church and community Western Reserve Association Council, Cleveland, 1969-1970, peace and international relations committee, 1973.

Member ad hoc committee on Vietnam Greater Cleveland Council of Churches of Christ, 1966-1968. Probation officer DuPage County Probation Department, Wheaton, Illinois, 1985-1986. Interim minister Chicago area, since 1978, Sauk Village United Church of Christ, 1978-1980, Steger 1st Congregation, 1981-1983, Forest Park, 1986-1988, River Grove Grace, 1989-1991, Mont Clare Congregation, 1990-1992, St. Nicolai, Chicago, 1992-1996.

Achievements

• Richard Ernest Matera has been listed as a noteworthy Minister by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Participant Civil Rights March, Selma, Alabama, 1965. Captain Cleveland United Fund, 1961-1963, Colgate Fund Doctor, 1963. Trustee Cleveland Union, 1961-1963, Berea United Fund, 1963-1969.

Member Berea Council on Human Relations, 1965-1971, United States committee Christian Peace Conference, Prague, Czechoslovakia, since 1967, National Arbor Day Foundation. Delegate Action Conference on National Priorities, Washington, 1969. Board directors, member ecumenical mission committee Community Renewal Society, Chicago, 1972-1976.

Board directors Respond Now, Chicago Heights, Illinois, 1972-1978. Member President's Council, Chicago Theological Seminary, 1973-1981. President Mended Hearts Inc., Downers Grove, Illinois, 1989-1990.

With United States Army Medical Corps., 1943-1946, European Theatre of Operations. Fellow Professional Association Clergy, Academy Parish Clergy. Member Living Bank International (organ donor member), Smithsonian Institution, Audubon Society, International Fellowship of Reconciliation, International Society Poets, National Library.Poetry, Steinway Society Chicago, Planetary Society, Jacques Cousteau Society, Antique Automobile Club, Hupmobile Club, Cadillac Club, Phi Beta Kappa, Beta Theta Pi.

Interests

• Avocations: drawing, poetry, astronomy, piano, working out at health club.

Connections

Son of Charles Carlo and Philomena Antoinette Cecile (Liberatore) M. M. Lynn B. Matera; children: Thomas Charles, Nancy Jean Matera Dye.

Father:

Charles Carlo Matera

Mother:

Philomena Antoinette Cecile (Liberatore) Matera

Spouse:

Marylynn Olga Beuth

child:

Nancy Jean Matera Dye Matera

child:

Thomas Charles Matera