John Baptist Sequeira (23 June 1930 – 9 October 2019) was an Indian

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bishop. Sequeira was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1958. He served as bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Chikmagalur, India, from 1987 to 2006.Diocese of Chikmagalur
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for his Konkani-language poetry "Ashim Asim Lharan".

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1930 births 2019 deaths 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in India Konkani-language poets 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in India Recipients of the Sahitya Akademi Award in Konkani {{India-RC-bishop-stub