18 Facts About James Dey

James Dey, was an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

James Dey served as the Bishop of the Forces from 1935 to 1946.

James Dey then spent the next seven years as a schoolteacher and then headmaster.

James Dey served mainly in South Africa, but with the outbreak of the First World War, he served in France on the Western Front.

James Dey was then once more posted to southern Africa, to the South West Africa campaign.

James Dey ended the war as vicar general to William Keatinge, the first Vicar Apostolic for Great Britain, Military, and having been awarded the Distinguished Service Order.

James Dey retired from the military in 1929, and was appointed rector of Oscott College.

James Dey was born on 14 October 1869 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England.

James Dey was educated at St Mary's College, Oscott, a Catholic seminary.

James Dey was ordained to the priesthood on 17 February 1894.

James Dey's early career was a school teacher: at Cotton College from 1894 to 1900, and at St Edmund's College, Ware from 1900 to 1902.

James Dey then returned to Cotton College as its headmaster in 1902.

On 7 August 1903, James Dey was commissioned in the Army Chaplains' Department, British Army, as a chaplain to the forces 4th class.

James Dey was placed on the retired list on 17 October 1929, thereby ending his first stint as a military chaplain.

In 1929, James Dey was appointed head of St Mary's College, Oscott, his former seminary, by Thomas Leighton Williams, the new Archbishop of Birmingham.

James Dey was promoted to protonotary apostolic in 1931, the most senior rank of Monsignor.

James Dey was appointed the Bishop of the Forces and Titular Bishop of Sebastopolis in Armenia by the Holy See on 13 April 1935.

James Dey was aware that war was coming, and did his best to maintain and prepare the smaller, inter-war batch of Catholic chaplains.