Bishop John Baptist Sequeira †

Deceased

Bishop Emeritus of Chikmagalur, India

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 Jun 1930		Born
15 Apr 1958	27.8	Ordained Priest	Priest
26 Jan 1987	56.5	Appointed	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India
11 Jun 1987	56.9	Ordained Bishop	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India
2 Dec 2006	76.4	Retired	Bishop of Chikmagalur, India
9 Oct 2019	89.2	Died	Bishop Emeritus of Chikmagalur, India

MicroData Summary
John Baptist Sequeira
Bishop John Baptist Sequeira
(born 23 Jun 1930, died 9 Oct 2019)
Bishop Emeritus of Chikmagalur

Event Place
Birth Place Mangalore, Diocese of Mangalore
Ordained Bishop Chikmagalur, Diocese of Chikmagalur
Death Place Little Sisters of the Poor, Bangalore, Archdiocese of Bangalore

a priest for 61.4 years
a bishop for 32.3 years

Principal Consecrator:
Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias †
Archbishop of Bangalore
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Bishop Basil Salvadore D’Souza †
Bishop of Mangalore
Bishop Ambrose Papaiah Yeddanapalli, O.F.M. †
Bishop of Bellary

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Archbishop Alphonsus Mathias † (1964)
Archbishop of Bangalore
Archbishop James Robert Knox † (1953)
Titular Archbishop of Melitene
Celso Benigno Luigi Cardinal Costantini † (1921)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Pietro Cardinal La Fontaine † (1906)
Patriarch of Venezia {Venice}
Pietro Cardinal Respighi † (1891)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi Quattro Coronati
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Archbishop Ignatius Paul Pinto † (1989)
Bishop Gerald Isaac Lobo (2000)
Bishop Thomas Anthony Vazhapilly (2003)
Bishop Anthony Swamy Thomasappa (2007)

External Link(s):

VIAF: 205720218
WikiData: Q1413087

Source(s):

r: Bollettino, 2 Dec 2005
ob/c2+: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 106, Number 9,254
d: CB, 10 Oct 2019
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 242, Necrology (back)

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