George Beck (bishop) explained

Type:Archbishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Most Reverend
George Beck
Honorific-Suffix:AA
Archbishop of Liverpool
Diocese:Liverpool
Appointed:29 January 1964
Term End:7 February 1976
Predecessor:John Carmel Heenan
Successor:Derek Worlock
Ordination:24 July 1927
Consecration:21 September 1948
Consecrated By:Bernard Griffin
Birth Date:1904 5, df=y
Birth Place:Streatham, London, England
Death Place:Liverpool, England
Church:Roman Catholic
Previous Post:Bishop of Salford (1955–64)
Bishop of Brentwood
(1951–55)
Coadjutor Bishop of Brentwood and Titular Bishop of Tigias (1948–51)
Education:Clapham College
Archbishop Name:George Beck
Dipstyle:The Most Reverend
Offstyle:Your Grace
Relstyle:Archbishop

George Andrew Beck (28 May 1904 – 13 September 1978) was an English prelate who served in the Roman Catholic Church as Archbishop of Liverpool from 29 January 1964 to 7 February 1976.

Life

Beck was born in Streatham in south London. He was educated at Clapham College and later at the Assumptionist College of St Michael at Hitchin in Hertfordshire. In 1927, he was ordained priest in the order of the Assumptionists (or Augustinians of the Assumption). He was headmaster of the Becket School in Nottingham and in 1948, he was appointed coadjutor Bishop of Brentwood and titular bishop of Tigias. He succeeded as Bishop of Brentwood in 1951 was subsequently Bishop of Salford from 1955 to 1964. As Bishop of Salford he continued the substantial expansion of new parishes and schools begun by his predecessor, Henry Vincent Marshall, to implement the Education Act. Beck was an educational expert, and successfully led negotiations with successive governments to better the position of Catholic schools across the country. He attended all four sessions of the Second Vatican Council from 1962 until 1965. In 1964 he was appointed Archbishop of Liverpool, from which he resigned at the age of 71 in 1976.

Archbishop Beck Catholic Sports College in the Walton area of Liverpool is named after him.