Sam Corley

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Sam Corley
Bishop of Stockport
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Corley in 2022
Church Church of England
Diocese Diocese of Chester
In officeJuly 2021 to present
Predecessor Libby Lane
Orders
Ordination2004 (deacon)
2005 (priest)
Consecration19 July 2021
by  Stephen Cottrell
Personal details
Born
Samuel Jon Clint Corley

1976 (age 46–47)
NationalityBritish
Denomination Anglicanism
Alma mater St Aidan's College, Durham
Hughes Hall, Cambridge
St John's College, Nottingham

Samuel Jon Clint Corley (born 1976) is a British Anglican bishop. Since 2021, he has been the Bishop of Stockport, one of two suffragan bishops in the Church of England Diocese of Chester. He previously served as Rector of Leeds Minster (in the Diocese of Leeds) from 2015 to 2021. [1] [2]

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Early life and education

Corley was born on 30 June 1976 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England. [3] He was educated at St Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School, an joint Anglican-Roman Catholic state school in Cambridge, and at Long Road Sixth Form College, also in Cambridge. [3] He studied theology at St Aidan's College, Durham (BA, MA), and trained as a history teacher at Hughes Hall, Cambridge (PGCE). [2] [4] He then taught history in a school in Sutton, Greater London. [5] trained for ministry at St John's College, Nottingham (MA). [2]

Ordained ministry

Corley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2004 and as a priest in 2005. [2] He served his curacy at St Thomas' Church, Lancaster in the Diocese of Blackburn between 2004 and 2008. [2] From 2008 to 2011, he was an assistant diocesan missioner and priest in charge of St John's Church, Ellel. [2] [5] In 2011, he moved to the Diocese of Bradford as a canon precentor of Bradford Cathedral and senior chaplain to the University of Bradford. [2] [5] On 6 October 2015, he was licensed as rector-designate of Leeds Minster in the recently formed Diocese of Leeds. [1]

On 27 May 2021, it was announced that he would be the next Bishop of Stockport in the Diocese of Chester. [6] [7] He legally took up the post on 19 July 2021, the day of his consecration as a bishop by Stephen Cottrell, Archbishop of York, at York Minster; he was consecrated alongside the other new suffragan of the diocese, Julie Conalty, Bishop of Birkenhead. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Welcome service for new Rector of Leeds Minster and Bishop of Richmond". The Diocese of Leeds. Church of England. 16 September 2015. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Samuel Jon Clint Corley" . Crockford's Clerical Directory (online ed.). Church House Publishing . Retrieved 27 May 2021.
  3. 1 2 "Stockport, Bishop Suffragan of, (Rt Rev. Samuel Jon Clint Corley) (born 30 June 1976)". Who's Who 2023 . Oxford University Press. 1 December 2022. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  4. ↑ "Sam Corley moves from Leeds Minster to become Bishop of Stockport". The Diocese of Leeds. Church of England. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  5. 1 2 3 "Who is bishop-designate Sam Corley". Diocese of Chester. 28 May 2021. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
  6. ↑ "Appointment of Suffragan Bishop of Stockport". GOV.UK. Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  7. ↑ "The next Bishops of Birkenhead and Stockport". Diocese of Chester. 27 May 2021. Retrieved 28 May 2021.
  8. ↑ "Julie and Sam to be consecrated at York Minster". Diocese of Chester. Retrieved 18 August 2021.
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