Victor Joseph Reed

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Victor Joseph Reed (23 December 1905–8 September 1971), was the fourth Roman Catholic Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa.

Reed was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Oklahoma on December 21, 1929. He served in many capacities around the diocese, including both pastoral assignments and positions in the diocesan chancery. In 1957, while serving as rector of Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he was named auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Oklahoma City-Tulsa. However, the diocesan ordinary, Bishop Eugene J. McGuinness died unexpectedly before Bishop Reed's episcopal ordination, and Reed was chosen to succeed him.

Reed was consecrated to the episcopate as Bishop of Oklahoma City-Tulsa on 5 March 1958. His principal consecrator was Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United States, and his principal co-consecrators were Jeremiah Francis Minihan, Auxiliary Bishop of Boston, and Stephen Aloysius Leven, Auxiliary Bishop of San Antonio.

Bishop Reed participated in the sessions of the Second Vatican Council. After the council concluded, Reed chaired the United States Catholic Conference Committee on Liturgical Experimentation to implement the changes in the liturgy called for by the council.

Bishop Reed opposed the Vietnam War, signing a statement with three other Catholic bishops supporting the Negotiation NOW movement in 1967. Bishop Reed died suddenly of a heart attack in 1971.