The Right Reverend Terence Brain |
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Bishop Emeritus of Salford | |
Bishop Terence Brain
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Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Province | Liverpool |
Diocese | Salford |
Appointed | 2 September 1997 |
Installed | 7 October 1997 |
Term ended | 30 September 2014 |
Predecessor | Patrick Altham Kelly |
Successor | John Arnold |
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Ordination | 22 February 1964 by Francis Joseph Grimshaw |
Consecration | 25 April 1991 by Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville |
Personal details | |
Birth name | Terence John Brain |
Born |
Coventry, England |
19 December 1938
Nationality | English |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Terence Brain (born 19 December 1938 in Coventry, England) is the Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.
Bishop 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.
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 to Archbishop Maurice Noël Léon Couve de Murville.
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 consecrated as Auxiliary Bishop of Birmingham and appointed 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.