Terence Patrick Drainey (born Manchester

Manchester

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, 1 August 1949) is the seventh, and current, Bishop of Middlesbrough

Bishop of Middlesbrough

The Bishop of Middlesbrough is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough in the Province of Liverpool, England.The diocese covers an area of of the counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire together with the City of York...

.

Career

Drainey studied for the priesthood at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw

Ushaw College

Ushaw College was a Roman Catholic seminary near Durham, England that closed in 2011. Ushaw was the principal seminary in the north of England for the training of Catholic priests.-History:...

 and the Royal English College

English College, Valladolid

The Royal English and Welsh College, Valladolid, under the patronage of St Alban, was founded in 1589 during the protestant reformation for the training of Catholic priests for the English and Welsh Mission....

 at Valladolid

Valladolid

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, 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, Fr Drainey returned to the Salford Diocese where he was appointed parish priest at the church of the Holy Cross, Patricroft

Patricroft

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, Eccles

Eccles, Greater Manchester

Eccles is a town in the City of Salford, a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England, west of Salford and west of Manchester city centre...

 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, Fr Drainey returned to England to take up the position of President of Ushaw College

Ushaw College

Ushaw College was a Roman Catholic seminary near Durham, England that closed in 2011. Ushaw was the principal seminary in the north of England for the training of Catholic priests.-History:...

. Three years later on 12 April 2006 he was appointed a Papal Chaplain by Pope Benedict XVI

Pope Benedict XVI

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 with the title of Monsignor

Monsignor

Monsignor, pl. monsignori, is the form of address for those members of the clergy of the Catholic Church holding certain ecclesiastical honorific titles. Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, from the French mon seigneur, meaning "my lord"...

.

Mgr Drainey was appointed seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough

Bishop of Middlesbrough

The Bishop of Middlesbrough is the Ordinary of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough in the Province of Liverpool, England.The diocese covers an area of of the counties of the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire together with the City of York...

 by the Pope on 17 November 2007, and was installed by Patrick Kelly

Patrick Altham Kelly

The Most Reverend Patrick Altham Kelly, KC*HS is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He currently serves as Archbishop of Liverpool and was formerly Vice President of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales....

, Archbishop of Liverpool

Archbishop of Liverpool

The Archbishop of Liverpool heads the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Liverpool in England. As such he is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Province of Liverpool, known also on occasion as the Northern Province.-History:...

 in St Mary's Cathedral, Middlesbrough

Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough is a Latin Rite Roman Catholic diocese based in Middlesbrough, England and is part of the province of Liverpool. It was founded on 20 December 1878, with the splitting of the Diocese of Beverley which had covered all of Yorkshire...

 on 25 January 2008. Upon his appointment he requested that people call him Bishop Terry, to avoid confusion with Bishop Terence Brain

Terence Brain

Terence Brain is the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford.-Education:Brain attended King Henry VIII Grammar School and Cotton College before training for the priesthood at Oscott College, Sutton Coldfield...

of Salford .