Victor Joseph Reed
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Most Reverend Victor J. Reed |
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| Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| See | Oklahoma |
| In office | January 21, 1958—September 7, 1971 |
| Predecessor | Eugene J. McGuinness † |
| Successor | John R. Quinn |
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| Ordination | December 21, 1929 |
| Consecration | March 5, 1958 |
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| Born |
December 23, 1905 Montpelier, Indiana |
| Died | September 8, 1971 (aged 65) Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States |
| Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa (1957-1958) |
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Styles of Theophile Meerschaert |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | none |
Victor Joseph Reed (December 23, 1905 – September 7, 1971) was an American clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa from 1958 until his death in 1971.
Victor Reed was born in Montpelier, Indiana, to Victor Larue and Henrietta Mary (née Collins) Reed. His father, a Protestant who moved to Indiana from Pennsylvania, worked in the oil industry and converted to Catholicism shortly before his marriage. His mother was born in Canada to Irish immigrants from County Clare. The eldest of five children, he had one sister, Mary Veronica; and three brothers, Collins Gerard, John Joseph, and Paul Joseph. In 1910, Reed and his family moved to Bald Hill, Oklahoma, on account of his father's work. They later moved to Mounds in 1912. That same year, at age seven, Reed entered St. Joseph's College in Muskogee, a boys' high school run by the Brothers of the Sacred Heart.
Following his graduation from St. Joseph's in 1924, Reed began his studies for the priesthood at St. John's Seminary in Little Rock, Arkansas. In an interview in 1963, he said, "Frankly, I had never considered any other career [than the priesthood]. I wanted to be a priest from as far back as I can remember, and that was when I was about 10 years old." In 1928, he was sent by Bishop Francis Kelley to continue his theological studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome. He earned a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree from the Urban College of Propaganda in 1929.
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