The Right Reverend Terry Drainey
Bishop of Middlesbrough
Church	Roman Catholic
Province	Liverpool
Diocese	Middlesbrough
See	Middlesbrough
Appointed	17 November 2007
Installed	25 January 2008
Predecessor	John Patrick Crowley
Orders
Ordination	12 July 1975 by Thomas Holland
Consecration	25 January 2008 by Patrick Altham Kelly
Personal details
Born	(1949-08-01) 1 August 1949 (age 74) Manchester, United Kingdom
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Motto	expectantes beatam spem
Coat of arms

Styles of Terence Drainey
Reference style	The Right Reverend
Spoken style	My Lord
Religious style	Bishop

Terence Patrick Drainey (born 1 August 1949, in Manchester) is an English Catholic prelate. He 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 at St Wulstan, Great Harwood. 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]