Jos Punt

Jozef Marianus (Jos) Point ( Alkmaar , 10 January 1946 ) was bishop of the Catholic diocese of Haarlem-Amsterdam, which was called Haarlem diocese until January 1, 2009. His motto is: Sub tuum praesidium (Under Your Protection).



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*1 Education  ==Education [  edit ] == Though Catholic was raised, point kept the Catholic faith during his university studies economics more or less seen and immersed himself thoroughly in esotericism and gnosticism. He also joined at that time by the Rosicrucians. However, he also read the Bible and other Christian writings. This appealed to him more at some point and made ​​him decide to return to the Catholic faith and to be trained as a priest, in order to be fully effective for the Catholic faith.
 * 2 Bishop
 * 3 Mariolatry
 * 4 Approval Mary Apparition
 * 5   Trivia
 * 6 Working
 * 7 Notes

In 1973 he received his Master's degree in economics at the University of Amsterdam . In 1974, aware of his vocation, he enlisted in the only seminary that the Netherlands at that time knew the major seminary Rolduc of the diocese of Roermond . Point was on June 9 1979 by Bishop Gijsen in the cathedral church of St. Christopher in Roermond to priests ordained.

Then spent two years Point in Augsburg where he is the social doctrine of the Catholic Church studied. After this period, he became a lecturer at Rolduc, while working on his dissertation Die Idee der Menschenrechte. In 1984 received his doctorate he summa cum laude to doctor of theology at the University of Augsburg. ==Bishop [  edit ] == On 1 July 1995 Jos Punt by Cardinal Simonis , Bomers bishop and Bishop Wiertz in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Bavo in Haarlem as bishop and auxiliary bishop of Haarlem appointed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">When Bomers died in 1998, Point was appointed diocesan administrator. Only after three years, on 21 July 2001 he was appointed bishop of the diocese of Haarlem - a relatively fairly long sedisvacatio. From June 24, 2000 to October 25, 2011 he was assisted by Bishop Johannes Gerardus Maria Burgsteden SSS Today John Willibrordus Maria Hendriks his auxiliary bishop. For years before his appointment as Bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam was a point in April 1995 appointed diocesan administrator for the Dutch Armed Forces, or deputy army bishop . Since Bär bishop resigned in March 1993, this bishop is still vacant.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Since the founding of the diocese in 1559 point is the thirteenth bishop. Calculated from the restoration of the Catholic hierarchy in the Netherlands in 1853, he was the eleventh bishop. The appointment in 2001, according to some media as "conservative" reputable Point seems to fit according to the same sources in the line of the Vatican to appoint "conservative" ministers in the Dutch church province  as part of a "conservative restoration".

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Point focuses its policies include the reduction of the position and influence, which pastoral workers (lay predecessors) since the sixties and seventies have taken in church in the Netherlands. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nrc_3-1" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[3]  He is a "sacred Church", with a clear separation between the powers of lay and ordained. This line is coming on strong criticism to be from the angle of "progressive" Catholics and pastoral workers. In addition reproached him that he would not communicate with his priests and other employees and would adopt a rigid,  What especially by "progressive" groups such as the Eighth of May Movement and the Association of Pastoral Workers is endorsed, but is rejected by more "conservative" groups like the contact with Roman Catholics. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[Mariolatry  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Bishop Punt mother's side a strong bond with Mary inherited, as evidenced by his special devotion to the apparitions of Mary in Amsterdam (the Lady of All Nations, its veneration of Mary as Co-Redeemer and as Mediatrix of All Grace "and his a Marian prayer borrowed motto. The initiated by Prayer and meeting day for the Lady, May 23 2010, ( Pentecost ), the Beurs van Berlage in Amsterdam came off 1,300 people. The meeting has been a tradition for several years. ==Recognition Mary Apparition <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">On May 31, 2002 Bishop Dot has Mary Apparition of Amsterdam gave the highest ecclesiastical recognition, "constat the supernaturalitate", confirming that Mary is there in the forties and fifties appeared to Ida Peerdeman. ==Trivia <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Works <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Mgr. Point as honorary canon linked to the Ghent St. Bavo Chapter because of the ties between the two dioceses.
 * Die Idee der Menschenrechte (thesis, 1984)
 * Pastoral and evangelization in the world today (1991)