Father John Ikataere Rarikin, M.S.C. (5 January 1944 â 8 February 2014) was a Roman Catholic priest who served as the Ecclesiastical Superior of the Mission sui iuris of Funafuti from 2010 to 2014.
Rarikin was born in Butaritari, Kiribati. He was the 3rd eldest in a family of 4 boys and 6 girls. In the young age he joined an Institute of Consecrated Life of Missionaries of the Sacred Heart and was ordained as priest on 30 September 1972. Also he studied at Rome in the Gregorian University.