Terry Pateman Awarded OBE
Warmest congratulations to Terry Pateman, member of our cathedral congregation and the Cathedral Board on his award of the OBE in the King's Birthday Honours list for 2025 for services to grassroots sport and community relations.
Terry has been involved in all aspects of administering the Northern Amateur Football League on a voluntary basis from 1965 to the present day. As Secretary, Vice Chair, Chair and latterly Chair of the League Management Committee, Terry has proactively helped position the league as a place where all sides of a divided community could join together as equals in football. In 2010 Terry was elected to the position of Vice President of the Irish Football Association and was in office until 2013 representing the Association at International Level.
In the 1960s and 70s Terry was an officer of the St James' Parish Boys Brigade and worked tirelessly to foster good relations between communities on either side of Duncairn Gardens and the Lower Antrim Road.
Terry has said "I am very proud and privileged to have received this recognition. I have thoroughly enjoyed being part of a team at the Northern Amateur Football League who have been able to work closely with all communities in our shared love of football."
Congratulations Terry.