Antony Tharekadavil, a priest of the Archdiocese of Thalassery (India), was born in 1965. After his priestly ordination (1993), he worked as a parish priest in the Indian State of Kerala and then as a missionary in Kernataka State until 1998. Since 1998 he had been doing his research in Jerusalem. In 2007 he obtained his Doctorate in Biblical Sciences and Archaeology.