Sam Corley

Samuel Jon Clint Corley (born 1976) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2021, he has been the Bishop of Stockport, one of two suffragan bishops in the Church of England Diocese of Chester. He previously served as Rector of Leeds Minster (in the Diocese of Leeds) from 2015 to 2021.

Early life and education Corley was born on 30 June 1976 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. He was educated at St Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School, a joint Anglican-Roman Catholic state school in Cambridge, and at Long Road Sixth Form College, also in Cambridge. He then taught history in a school in Sutton, Greater London. He trained for ministry at St John's College, Nottingham (MA). He legally took up the post on 19 July 2021, the day of his consecration as a bishop by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, at York Minster; he was consecrated alongside the other new suffragan of the diocese, Julie Conalty, Bishop of Birkenhead.