| The Right Reverend Terence Brain |
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| Bishop of Salford | |
Bishop Terence Brain |
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| Province | Liverpool |
| Diocese | Salford |
| Enthroned | 7 October 1997 |
| Predecessor | Patrick Altham Kelly |
| Other posts | Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham and Titular Bishop of Amudarsa |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 22 February 1964 (Priest) |
| Consecration | 25 April 1991 (Bishop) |
| Personal details | |
| Birth name | Terence John Brain |
| Born | 19 December 1938 Coventry, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic Church |
Terence Brain (born 19 December 1938 in Coventry, England) is the current Roman Catholic Bishop of Salford.
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Brain attended King Henry VIII Grammar School and Cotton College before training for the priesthood at Oscott College, Sutton Coldfield. He was ordained as a priest by Archbishop Grimshaw in St Chad's Cathedral, Birmingham on 22 February 1964.[1]
In 1964 he was appointed as an assistant priest in Longton, Staffordshire although after a year he returned to Cotton College and remained there for four years. After that he worked at Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham as their chaplain for two years and later went on to serve as secretary to Archbishop George Dwyer (until he retired) and then onto Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville.[1]
Terence became the priest to a series of parishes in the Midlands area, including Bucknall, Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford. On 5 February 1991, he was ordained as Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham and made Titular Bishop of Amudarsa.
He was appointed as the Bishop of Salford and head of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford on 2 September 1997 and installed on 7 October of that year.
Terence Brain has been heavily involved with education and from 1986-1991 he was a member of Staffordshire Education Committee and Schools Commissioner for Staffordshire. He has been much involved with the Diocesan Lourdes Pilgrimage and has served as the director for a number of years. In 1995 he chaired a working party for the Bishop's Conference on child abuse which led to the pastoral document Healing the Wound.[2]
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