William Wheeler (bishop)

The Right Reverend William Gordon Wheeler
Roman Catholic Bishop emeritus of Leeds
Church	Roman Catholic Church
See	Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds
Appointed	25 April 1966
Installed	27 June 1966
Term ended	12th July 1985
Predecessor	George Dwyer
Successor	David Konstant
Other posts	Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Middlesbrough (1964–1966) Titular Bishop of Theudalis (1964–1966)
Orders
Ordination	31 March 1940 by Arthur Hinsley
Consecration	19 March 1964 by Eugenio Cardinale
Personal details
Born	(1910-05-05)May 5, 1910 Saddleworth, Yorkshire, UK
Died	February 21, 1998(1998-02-21) (aged 87) Leeds, Yorkshire, UK
Buried	St Edward King and Confessor Church, Clifford, West Yorkshire, UK
Nationality	British
Denomination	Church of England (Birth–1936) Catholic (1936–death)
Residence	Eltofts, Thorner, Leeds
Alma mater	University College, Oxford, Beda College
Motto	Veritas et Caritas (Latin for In Truth and Love)
Coat of arms

Styles of Wiliam Gordon Wheeler
Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	My Lord
Religious style	Monsignor

William Gordon Wheeler was an English prelate and the Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds, England. Wheeler had served as the seventh Roman Catholic Bishop of Leeds, being succeeded by David Konstant. Before that, Wheeler served as Coadjutor Bishop of the Diocese of Middlesbrough and as Titular Bishop of Theudalis.

Wheeler was born on 5 May 1910 in Saddleworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and then the University College, Oxford where he studied History and then Theology. He was strongly influenced by the Anglo-Catholic tradition of the church in Worsley which he attended during his time at the Grammar School.

In 1934, Wheeler was ordained as an Anglican priest and began his ecclesiastical career with curacies at St Bartholomew's, Brighton, and St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield.

During this period, Wheeler became more and more convinced by the writings of the Blessed Cardinal John Henry Newman, once also a minister of the Church of England and the leader of the Oxford Movement, before being received into the Roman Catholic Church. He finally followed this same path as Newman and was received into the Catholic Church in 1936. He then enrolled at Beda College in Rome to study for the Catholic priesthood.