Jos Punt

Jozef Marianus "Jos" Punt (born 10 January 1946) was the Roman Catholicbishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam in the Netherlands from 2001 to 2020.

Joseph Marianus Punt was born on 10 January 1946 in Alkmaar, North Holland, Netherlands. In his years as a student of economics in Amsterdam Punt distanced himself from the Catholic religion of his youth and was more involved in esotericism, gnosticism and Rosicrucianism. Upon discovering the Bible however, he began considering a career in the priesthood. He went to the south of the country where at the time there existed the only Catholic Dutch Seminary. In 1973 he obtained a doctoral degree in economics from the University of Amsterdam.

In 1979 he became a priest, ordained by Bishop of RoermondJoannes Gijsen. In the Seminary he taught the Social Teachings of the Church, and he got also his PhD in that field from AugsburgUniversity in Germany.

Pope John Paul II appointed him Auxiliary Bishop of Haarlem 1995; he was ordained by the local ordinary, bishop Henny Bomers. Punt was also appointed as apostolic administrator for the Military Ordinariate.

In 1998 Bomers died suddenly after suffering a heart attack. Punt was appointed Apostolic Administrator. On 21 July 2001 he was appointed bishop of Haarlem.^[1] He was assisted by auxiliary bishop Johannes Gerardus Maria Hendriks, who was appointed coadjutor bishop in December 2018 and succeeded him as bishop of Haarlem-Amsterdam on 1 June 2020.

Punt was the 13th bishop of the diocese, which was established in 1559. Due to the Protestant Reformation there was no bishop in Haarlem, or the Netherlands, for 300 years, until 1853.

Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 1 June 2020.^[2] He had previously announced he hoped to retire before the usual age of 75 for health reasons.

El obispo Punt ha manifestado su devoción a la Santísima Virgen María, pues adoptó como lema «Sub tuum praesidium» , la frase inicial de un himno mariano. Apoya la propuesta de la Fundación Lourdes de Amstel de construir una iglesia de peregrinación, inspirada en Santa Sofía , en honor a María Vrouwe van Alle Volkeren . ^{[ 3 ]}

• (en holandés) Bisdominformatie en el sitio web de la Diócesis de Haarlem-Amsterdam
• (en holandés) De huidige bisschop: mgr. Punt en el sitio web de la Diócesis de Haarlem-Amsterdam
• El obispo Joseph Maria Punt en el sitio web Catholic-Hierarchy.org