546 - July 2014
June 1st, 2014 - July 3rd, 2014

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HOLY SEE

Oblate named Apostolic Administrator

On 31 May 2014, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of Bishop Wilhelmus de Bekker from the pastoral governance of the Diocese of Paramaribo (Suriname) in conformity with Canon 401 of the Code of Canon Law. The Holy Father named Oblate of Mary Immaculate, Fr. Antonius (Toon) TE DORSHORST as Apostolic Administrator of that same diocese “at the disposition of the Holy See.”

Fr te Dorsthorst was born in Holland in 1943 and was ordained a priest in 1970. He arrived in Suriname in his early youth (before his priestly ordination) and has lived there ever since. His main apostolate has been among the indigenous and Maroon people of Suriname’s interior. He speaks Dutch, English and French and is fluent in the local languages of the Sranantongo, Saramaccan and Aucaan peoples.



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