Victor Joseph Reed

[1] His father, a Protestant who moved to Indiana from Pennsylvania, worked in the oil industry and converted to Catholicism shortly before his marriage.

[2] 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.

"[2] In 1928, he was sent by Bishop Francis Kelley to continue his theological studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

[2] Upon his return, Reed became assistant chancellor of the Diocese of Oklahoma City and pastor of St. Francis Xavier Church in Stillwater.

[4] He was consecrated on the following March 5 by Archbishop Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, with Bishops Jeremiah Francis Minihan and Stephen Aloysius Leven serving as co-consecrators, at Holy Family Cathedral.

[5] In 1966, Traditionalist Catholics picketed his residence and called for his removal, accusing Reed of following "un-Catholic" policies and participating in a "worldwide atheistic conspiracy for world domination" led by communists.