From Eilabun, is the archbishop of the Greek Catholic community (Melkite) of the Galilee, Nazareth, Northern Samaria, Acre and Haifa. Archbishop Mata is a graduate of Computer Science Studies at the Technion.After graduation he turned to Religious Studies at a Beit Jala Seminary, near Bethlehem. He held many positions in the church in Galilee, and continued his studies in Rome, where he received his PhD.
He served as a teacher at the Theological school of the Greek Catholic Patriarchate in Lebanon, and from 2013 he was the Assistant to the Head of the Greek Catholic Community in Nazareth.