Clergy

Rev. Michael Sellers

Ordained 22nd June 1996.

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Rt Rev Terence Patrick Drainey

Bishop Terence Patrick was born in Manchester in August 1949. He attended Ushaw College as a student in the Junior House but left before entering Major Seminary. Eventually he was sent to the Royal English College Valladolid in Spain where he studied in the Augustinian Stadium of the University of the Comillas.

Bishop Terence PatrickHe was ordained for the diocese of Salford in 1975 and worked for ten years as an assistant priest. In 1986 he was loaned to the Archdiocese of Kisumu in Western Kenya as a “fidel donut” priest. On his return in 1991 he worked as a parish priest until he was appointed spiritual director to the Royal English College of St Albans at Valladolid in 1997. During this time, the staff of the College embarked on the project of developing a propaedeutic or foundational year to help candidates thoroughly prepare for priestly formation. He eventually became the Director of this programme.

He was appointed to the position of President of St Cuthbert’s College Ushaw in June 2003, and in April 2006 was made a papa chaplain by his Holiness Pope Benedict XVI.

He was installed as the seventh Bishop of Middlesbrough in November 2007.

Rev. Kieran Kilcommons

Rev. Kieran Kilcommons is a member of the Madonna House community at Robin Hood’s Bay. Although not part of the Middlesborough Diocese clergy, he does play an active role in supporting St Hilda’s parish as well as his Madonna House duties.