Victoria Claire "Tors" Ramsey (born 1971) is a Welsh

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priest. Since June 2021, she has been Archdeacon of Newark in the

Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham 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 b ...

. Ramsey grew up in

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, and her first career was as a

speech and language therapist Speech is the use of the human voice as a medium for language. Spoken language combines vowel and consonant sounds to form units of meaning like words, which belong to a language's lexicon. There are many different intentional speech acts, suc ...

in the National Health Service. She was

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in the

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as a

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in 2011 and as a

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in 2012. She was a curate in

Diocese of Exeter The Diocese of Exeter is a Church of England diocese covering the county of Devon. It is one of the largest dioceses in England. The Cathedral Church of St Peter in Exeter is the seat of the diocesan Bishop of Exeter. It is part of the Provinc ...

from 2011 to 2018, and then a

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and

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enabler for the Diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Ramsey, Tors 1971 births 21st-century Welsh Anglican priests Archdeacons of Newark Speech and language pathologists Living people