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Sam Corley
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| Bishop of Stockport | |
Bishop Sam Corley
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| Church | Church of England |
| Diocese | Diocese of Chester |
| In office | July 2021 to present |
| Predecessor | Libby Lane |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 2004 (deacon) 2005 (priest) |
| Consecration | 19 July 2021 by Stephen Cottrell |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Samuel Jon Clint Corley 1976 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | British |
| 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 RectorofLeeds Minster (in the Diocese of Leeds) from 2015 to 2021.[1][2]
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]
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 chargeofSt John's Church, Ellel.[2][5] In 2011, he moved to the Diocese of Bradford as a canon precentorofBradford 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]
