Background
He was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka to Sri Lankan Tamil family.
He was born in Jaffna, Sri Lanka to Sri Lankan Tamil family.
He attended a training course in Youth Ministry in Manila, Philippines from 1977-1979.
He took his final vows and was ordained a priest on December 21, 1966. He has been a parish priest in Gojra, Diocese of Faisalabad, from 1976-1977. He was parish priest in Toba Tek Singh, Diocese of Faisalabad from 1978-1980.
He was parish priest at Khanewal, Diocese of Multan, from 1979–1985.
Superior of the OMI Delegation in Pakistan, 1980–1982 and again parish priest in Gojra from 1982-1986. He was once again parish priest in Toba Tek Singh from 1987–1989.
Undertook studies in Psychology and Spirituality at Saint Anselm Institute in Kent, England and then later courses in Spirituality at the Angelicum, Rome, 1989-1992. He was parish priest in Gojra for a third time from 1992–1993.
Assistant in the formation house of the Oblates in Karachi, 1993–1997 and First Counselor of the OMI Delegation in Pakistan from 1997-2001.
He was appointed to the post of Apostolic Prefect Of Quetta in December 2001. French Victor was also at the Vatican for the Ad limina Apostolorum visit of the Pakistani Bishops in June 2008. On 29 April 2010 Pope Benedict XVI elevated the apostolic prefecture of Quetta, to the rank of Apostolic vicariate, with the same name and territorial configuration as before.
He appointed French
Victor as apostolic vicar of the new ecclesiastical circumscription and the titular bishop of Timida. He was consecrated Bishop at Saint Patrick"s Cathedral, Karachi on 16 July 2010 by the apostolic nuncio to Pakistan Archbishop Adolfo Tito Yllana. The Principal Company-Consecrators were Archbishop Evarist Pinto of Karachi and Bishop Max John Rodrigues of Hyderabad.