Hubert Victor Whitsey was a British Church of England bishop.
10 Facts About Victor Whitsey
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Victor Whitsey was born on 21 November 1916 in Blackburn.
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Victor Whitsey was ordained as a deacon on 18 December 1949 and appointed a curate in Chorley in the Diocese of Blackburn.
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Victor Whitsey was ordained as a priest on 1 January 1950, and was appointed as a perpetual curate in Farrington St Paul, in the Diocese of Blackburn a year later on 1 January 1951.
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Victor Whitsey remained in that post for four years, and on 1 January 1955, he was appointed to the position of a vicar at Halliwell in the Diocese of Manchester.
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Victor Whitsey was an honorary canon of Manchester Cathedral appointed on 1 January 1963 and remained in this post until 1 January 1968.
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Victor Whitsey was then consecrated as a bishop on 1 November 1971.
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The Diocese of Manchester, where Whitsey officiated from 1955 to 1968 is to its north, as is Blackburn, where he officiated from 1950 to the end of 1954, and then again from 1968 to November 1971.
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Victor Whitsey told me he agreed I had a calling from God.
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Victor Whitsey told me he had the power to give me everything I wanted in life and the power to take it all away.