Terence Patrick Drainey (born 1 August 1949, in

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) is an English

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. He is the seventh and current

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Career

Drainey studied for the priesthood at

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and the Royal English College at

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, Spain. He was ordained in 1975 for the

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where he worked for ten years as an assistant priest at St Wulstan,

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. 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,

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, 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

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. Three years later, on 12 April 2006, he was appointed a Papal Chaplain by

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with the title of

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. Drainey was appointed seventh

by the Pope on 17 November 2007 and was installed by

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, 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

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of Salford.

References

External links

Roman Catholic Diocese of Middlesbrough website
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