Terence Brain is the Bishop Emeritus of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salford.
Education
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 Street Chad"s Cathedral, Birmingham on 22 February 1964.
Career
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. Bishop Brain"s resignation was accepted by Pope Francis on Tuesday, 30 September 2014.
That same day, the Pope appointed Bishop John Arnold, one of the auxiliary bishops and vicars general of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, as Bishop Brain"s successor.
Membership
Terence Brain has been heavily involved with education and from 1986-1991 he was a member of Staffordshire Committee and Schools Commissioner for Staffordshire.