Terry Drainey

Styles of Terence Drainey
Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	Your Lordship
Religious style	Bishop
Posthumous style	not applicable

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

Appointments

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 faithful gift) priest. On his return from Africa Drainey became a parish priest in Salford. In 1997 he became spiritual director to the Royal English College at Valladolid.

Drainey was appointed President of Ushaw College in June 2003. On 12 April 2006 Pope Benedict XVI appointed Drainey a papal chaplain. He 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.

References

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough website