Victor Guazzelli

The Right Reverend Victor Guazzelli
titular Bishop of Lindisfarne
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Appointed	24 April 1970
Term ended	1 June 2004
Successor	John Arnold
Other posts	Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (1970–1996)
Orders
Ordination	17 March 1945
Consecration	23 May 1970 by John Heenan
Personal details
Born	19 March 1920 Stepney, County of London
Died	1 June 2004 (aged 84)
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church

Victor Guazzelli (19 March 1920 – 1 June 2004) was a Roman Catholic bishop. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster (1970–1996) and held the titular see of Lindisfarne (1970–2004). He was known as a devoted supporter of social justice.

Victor Guazzelli was born in Stepney on 19 March 1920 of Italian immigrants from Lucca, Tuscany. His father, Cesare Guazzelli, worked as an iceman. Two of his three sisters died from childhood pneumonia. At the age of nine, Victor told his father he wanted to enter the priesthood. Cesare gave his blessing, and in 1935 Victor left for the English College, Lisbon, a Roman Catholic seminary. Whilst attending the seminary, World War II broke out and Victor was unable to return to London until 1945, by which time he was already a priest]. His father had died during his absence. Now fluent in Portuguese and Italian, Victor took up a post at St Patrick's, Soho Square, before being recalled to the seminary in Lisbon as bursar, and to teach Church History and Scripture.

In 1958, Guazzelli came back to the staff at Westminster Cathedral, at the time when Pope John XXIII was beginning to make changes in the Catholic Church, which would culminate in the Second Vatican Council and the new rite of mass.

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