The Ven The Venerable (''venerabilis'' in Latin) is a style, a title, or an epithet which is used in some Western Christian churches, or it is a translation of similar terms for clerics in Eastern Orthodoxy and monastics in Buddhism. Christianity Cathol ...

. Bernard Lee Holdridge SSC (24 July 1935 – 4 September 2021) was the Archdeacon of Doncaster from 1994 to 2001. Holdridge was educated at Thorne Grammar School and

Lichfield Theological College Lichfield Theological College was founded in 1857 to train Anglican clergy to serve in the Church of England. It was located on the south side of the Cathedral Close in Lichfield, Staffordshire and closed in 1972. Notable staff * Cecil Cherrin ...

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ordained Ordination is the process by which individuals are consecrated, that is, set apart and elevated from the laity class to the clergy, who are thus then authorized (usually by the denominational hierarchy composed of other clergy) to perform va ...

in 1968. After a curacy in Swinton he held incumbencies in

Hexthorpe Hexthorpe is a suburb of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the area's shape resembles a rhombus, with borders with Balby and Doncaster town centre, separated by railway lines and the river se ...

, Rawmarsh and Worksop. He had been a Guardian of the

Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of Mary, mother of Jesus venerated by Catholics, Western Rite Orthodox Christians, and some Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the ...

since 1996.‘HOLDRIDGE, Ven. Bernard Lee’, Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016 ; online edn, Nov 201
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1935 births 2021 deaths People associated with York St John University Alumni of Lichfield Theological College Archdeacons of Doncaster People from Thorne, South Yorkshire People educated at Thorne Grammar School {{York-archdeacon-stub