Terry Drainey

Terry Drainey
Bishop of Middlesbrough
Diocese	Middlesbrough
See	Middlesbrough
Appointed	17 November 2007
Installed	25 January 2008
Predecessor	John Patrick Crowley
Orders
Ordination	12 July 1975
Consecration	25 January 2008 by Patrick Altham Kelly
Personal details
Born	1 August 1949 Manchester, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic

Styles of Terence Drainey
Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	Your Lordship
Religious style	Bishop

Terence Patrick "Terry" Drainey (born Manchester, 1 August 1949) is the seventh and current Bishop of Middlesbrough.

Career

Drainey studied for the priesthood at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw and the Royal English College at Valladolid, Spain. He was ordained in 1975 for the Diocese of Salford where he worked for ten years as an assistant priest. From 1986 to 1991 he was on loan to the Archdiocese of Kisumu in Kenya as a fidei donum (literally translated as "gift of faith") priest.

In 1991, upon leaving Africa, Drainey returned to the Salford diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft, Eccles in Salford, where he served for the next six years prior to being appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid in 1997.

In June 2003, Drainey returned to England to take up the position of President of Ushaw College. Three years later, on 12 April 2006, he was appointed a Papal Chaplain by Pope Benedict XVI with the title of Monsignor.

Drainey was appointed seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough by the Pope on 17 November 2007 and was installed by Patrick Kelly, Archbishop of Liverpool, in St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough on 25 January 2008. Upon his appointment he requested that people call him "Bishop Terry", to avoid confusion with Bishop Terence Brain of Salford.^[1]

References

1. "New Bishop of Middlesbrough Ordained". BBC. 25 January 2008.

External links

• Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough website