Terence Patrick Drainey

Terence Patrick Drainey (born 1 August 1949, in Manchester) is an English Catholic prelate and served as the seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough until his retirement in December 2025.

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 accordance with Canon 401 §1, Drainey's resignation as Bishop of Middlesbrough, submitted on reaching the age of 75, was accepted by Pope Leo XIV on 22 December 2025. On the same day, Bishop Marcus Stock of Leeds was appointed Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Middlesbrough.

Personal life He was born in Manchester in 1949. His parents were Joseph Patrick Drainey and Mary Elizabeth, a convert to Catholicism. His father was an optician in Clayton, Manchester. He has a sister, Mrs Pat Paver.