John Philip Saklil (20 March 1960 – 3 August 2019) was an Indonesian prelate of the

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who was Bishop of Timika from 2004 until his death in 2019. Saklil was born in Kokonao,

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Moluccan Moluccans are the Austronesian-speaking and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, and today consists of two Indonesian prov ...

transmigrant parents from the

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on 20 March 1960. He studied in Indonesia and the Philippines before being ordained a priest of the Diocese of Jayapura on 23 October 1988. He fulfilled pastoral assignments until 1993 and then studied for three years at the East Asian Pastoral Institute in

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. Returning to Jayapura, he was vicar general from 1996 to 1999 and then episcopal vicar for the western part of the diocese, based in

Timika Timika is a chartered city (''kota''), and the capital of Mimika Regency on the southern coast of Central Papua, Indonesia. At the 2020 Census, the district which includes the town (it remains administratively within the Regency, rather than havin ...

, from 2000 to 2004. On 10 January 2004,

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appointed him the first Bishop of newly established Diocese of Timika. He received his episcopal consecration on 18 April. He died on 3 August 2019.

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1960 births 2019 deaths People from Mimika Regency Moluccan people 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Indonesia {{Indonesia-RC-bishop-stub