PERU
National Catholic Reporter
Dennis Coday | Sep. 21, 2013 NCR Today
An auxiliary bishop in Peru has been quietly removed from office because of allegations of sexual abuse of minors.
In a move resembling the case of a papal ambassador to the Dominican Republic, who also was quietly remove from office for abuse allegations, neither the Vatican nor the local bishops’ conference announced the dismissal of Gabino Miranda, auxiliary bishop in the dioceses of Ayacucho, a poor Andean region in southern Peru.
In Peru, local media learned of Miranda’s dismissal and asked church officials for comments Sept. 20. The officials confirmed the dismissal but would not say when it happened or why. Later local prosecutors said they were investigating Miranda.
A retired bishop, Luis Bambaren, a former president of Peru’s bishops’ conference, final revealed to local media that Miranda’s dismissal was because of sex abuse of minors.
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