Victoria Claire "Tors" Ramsey (born 1971) is a Welsh Anglican priest. Since June 2021, she has been Archdeacon of Newark in the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. [1]
Ramsey grew up in South Wales, and her first career was as a speech and language therapist in the National Health Service. [2] She was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2011 and as a priest in 2012. [3] She was a curate in Diocese of Exeter from 2011 to 2018, and then a church growth and planting enabler for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. [3] [4]
Southwell is a minster and market town in the district of Newark and Sherwood in Nottinghamshire, England. It is home to the grade-I listed Southwell Minster, the cathedral of the Anglican Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham. The population of the town was recorded at 7,558 in the 2021 Census. The town is on the River Greet and is located geographically 9 miles (14 km) west of Newark on Trent, 15 miles (24 km) north-east of Nottingham, 13 miles (21 km) south-east of Mansfield and 22 miles (35 km) south-east of Worksop.
Lowdham is a village and civil parish in the Newark and Sherwood district of Nottinghamshire between Nottingham and Southwell. At the 2001 census it had a population of 2,832, increasing to 3,334 at the 2011 Census. Two main roads slicing through the village are the A6097 south-east to north-west and the A612 between Nottingham and Southwell.
The Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham is a Church of England diocese in the Province of York, headed by the Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham. It covers all the English county of Nottinghamshire and a few parishes in South Yorkshire. It is bordered by the dioceses of Derby, Leicester, Lincoln and Sheffield. The cathedral, Southwell Minster, is in the town of Southwell, 15 miles north of Nottingham.
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