{{Short description|British bishop (born 1976)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific_prefix = The Right Reverend | name = | honorific_suffix = | title = Bishop of Stockport | image = Bishop Sam Corley (52191552089) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Bishop Sam Corley in 2022 | church = Church of England | province = | diocese = Diocese of Chester | term = July 2021 to present | predecessor = Libby Lane | successor = | opposed = | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 2004 (deacon) <br /> 2005 (priest) | ordained_by = | consecration = 19 July 2021 | consecrated_by = Stephen Cottrell | laicized = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = Samuel Jon Clint Corley | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1976}} <!-- {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}} --> | birth_place = <!-- City, administrative region, country (per Template:Infobox person) --> | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (death date then birth date) --> | death_place = <!-- as birth_place --> | buried = <!-- or | tomb = --> | resting_place_coordinates = | nationality = British | religion = Anglicanism | residence = | parents = | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | profession = <!-- or | previous_post = --> | education = | alma_mater = St Aidan's College, Durham <br /> Hughes Hall, Cambridge <br /> 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.<ref name="new Rector">{{cite web |title=Welcome service for new Rector of Leeds Minster and Bishop of Richmond |url=https://www.leeds.anglican.org/content/welcome-service-new-rector-leeds-minster-and-bishop-richmond |website=The Diocese of Leeds |publisher=Church of England |access-date=28 May 2021 |date=16 September 2015}}</ref><ref name="Crockford">{{Crockford | forenames = Samuel Jon Clint | surname = Corley | id = 10036 | accessed = 27 May 2021 }}</ref>
==Early life and education== Corley was born on 30 June 1976 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.<ref name="WW 23">{{cite web |title=Stockport, Bishop Suffragan of, (Rt Rev. Samuel Jon Clint Corley) (born 30 June 1976) |url=http://www.ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whoswho/U296191 |website=Who's Who 2023 |publisher=Oxford University Press |access-date=27 July 2023 |language=en |date=1 December 2022}}</ref> He was educated at St Bede's Inter-Church Comprehensive School, a joint Anglican-Roman Catholic state school in Cambridge, and at Long Road Sixth Form College, also in Cambridge.<ref name="WW 23" /> He studied theology at St Aidan's College, Durham (BA, MA), and trained as a history teacher at Hughes Hall, Cambridge (PGCE).<ref name="Crockford" /><ref name="moves">{{cite web |title=Sam Corley moves from Leeds Minster to become Bishop of Stockport |url=https://www.leeds.anglican.org/news/sam-corley-moves-leeds-minster-become-bishop-stockport |website=The Diocese of Leeds |publisher=Church of England |access-date=28 May 2021 |date=27 May 2021}}</ref> He then taught history in a school in Sutton, Greater London.<ref name="who">{{cite web |title=Who is bishop-designate Sam Corley |url=https://www.chester.anglican.org/news/who-is-bishop-designate-sam-corley.php |website=Diocese of Chester |access-date=18 August 2021 |date=28 May 2021}}</ref> trained for ministry at St John's College, Nottingham (MA).<ref name="Crockford" />
==Ordained ministry== Corley was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 2004 and as a priest in 2005.<ref name="Crockford" /> He served his curacy at St Thomas' Church, Lancaster in the Diocese of Blackburn between 2004 and 2008.<ref name="Crockford" /> From 2008 to 2011, he was an assistant diocesan missioner and priest in charge of St John's Church, Ellel.<ref name="Crockford" /><ref name="who" /> In 2011, he moved to the Diocese of Bradford as a canon precentor of Bradford Cathedral and senior chaplain to the University of Bradford.<ref name="Crockford" /><ref name="who" /> On 6 October 2015, he was licensed as rector-designate of Leeds Minster in the recently formed Diocese of Leeds.<ref name="new Rector" />
On 27 May 2021, it was announced that he would be the next Bishop of Stockport in the Diocese of Chester.<ref name="GOV">{{cite web |title=Appointment of Suffragan Bishop of Stockport |url=https://www.gov.uk/government/news/appointment-of-suffragan-bishop-of-stockport-27-may-2021 |website=GOV.UK |publisher=Prime Minister's Office, 10 Downing Street |access-date=28 May 2021 |language=en |date=27 May 2021}}</ref><ref name="Bishops">{{cite web |title=The next Bishops of Birkenhead and Stockport |url=https://chester.anglican.org/news/the-next-bishops-of-birkenhead-and-stockport.php |website=Diocese of Chester |access-date=28 May 2021 |date=27 May 2021}}</ref> 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.<ref name="cons">{{Cite web |title=Julie and Sam to be consecrated at York Minster |url=https://chester.anglican.org/news/julie-and-sam-to-be-consecrated-at-york-minster.php |access-date=2021-08-18 |website=Diocese of Chester}}</ref>
==References== {{reflist}} {{Bishops of Stockport}} {{Diocese of Chester}} {{authority control}}
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