Late Bishop Mathias Fernandes was born in St Mathias, Divar Island on the 4th November 1917. He was ordained as a priest on the26th October 1944, and later a Bishop on the 3rd of February in 1964. He was responsible in opening many educational institutions and was a revered figure in his village of St Mathias, Divar and Mysore, now Karnataka. He passed away on the 9th May 1985.