Štefan Sečka (6 July 1953 – 28 October 2020) was a Slovak

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bishop. Sečka was born in

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and was ordained to the priesthood in 1976. He served as Titular bishop of ''Sita'' and Auxiliary Bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Spiš The Diocese of Spiš (, , ) is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church in northern Slovakia. It covers central and eastern parts of the Žilina Region and western part of the Prešov Region. Its seat is in Spišská Kapitula; the diocese c ...

, Slovakia, from 2002 to 2011 and was bishop of the diocese from 2011 until his death in 2020. Sečka died on 28 October 2020 from

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at the age of 67.Zomrel spišský diecézny biskup Štefan Sečka

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1953 births 2020 deaths 21st-century Roman Catholic bishops in Slovakia People from Levoča District {{Slovakia-RC-bishop-stub