Joăo Evangelista Martins Terra, S.J. (7 March 1925 – 11 March 2022) was a Brazilian

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bishop. Born in

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, Martins Terra was ordained to the priesthood in 1956 for the

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. He was appointed

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of ''Bagis'' and then served as the auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Olinda and Recife, Brazil, from 1988 to 1994 and as the auxiliary bishop of the

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, Brazil, from 1994 until his retirement in 2004. Martins Terra died on 11 March 2022, four days after his 97th birthday.

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