Nigel McCulloch was educated at Liverpool College, studied theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and trained for the priesthood at Cuddesdon College, Oxford.
18 Facts About Nigel McCulloch
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Nigel McCulloch was ordained in Chester Cathedral in 1966 and served as a curate in the large urban parish of Ellesmere Port from 1966 to 1971.
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Nigel McCulloch was chaplain to Christ's College, Cambridge, from 1970 to 1973 and was the Director of Studies in Theology there until 1975.
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Nigel McCulloch served as Diocesan Missioner in the Diocese of Norwich from 1973 to 1978.
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Nigel McCulloch was appointed Archdeacon of Sarum and rector of the city-centre church of St Thomas in Salisbury in 1978.
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In 1986, McCulloch was appointed as the suffragan Bishop of Taunton in the Diocese of Bath and Wells.
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Nigel McCulloch was ordained and consecrated a bishop on 29 January 1986, by Robert Runcie, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Gloucester Cathedral.
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Nigel McCulloch was appointed Bishop of Manchester in August 2002, taking up duties later that year, and was installed in February 2003.
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Nigel McCulloch was appointed Lord High Almoner to Elizabeth II in 1997 and took his seat in the House of Lords in 1997.
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Nigel McCulloch is chairman of the West Yorkshire Ecumenical Council and chairman of the Police Standards Committee for West Yorkshire.
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Nigel McCulloch was the national chairman of the Council for Christians and Jews from 2008 to 2015.
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Nigel McCulloch is the Chairman of the Legislative Group charged with bringing proposals to the Church of England's General Synod regarding women becoming bishops while enabling those opposed to this to retain an honoured place within the church.
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Nigel McCulloch has been active in the Scout Movement, latterly as a County Chairman in Somerset and County President in Yorkshire.
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Nigel McCulloch was a member of the Select Committee reviewing the BBC Charter.
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In education, Nigel McCulloch has been a governor of Marlborough College, and then of Huddersfield University while he was Bishop of Wakefield.
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Nigel McCulloch is chair of the board of governors at the University of Bolton, which is within the area of his Manchester diocese.
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In June 2007, Nigel McCulloch considered taking legal action against Sony because of their PlayStation game Resistance: Fall of Man.
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The usual age of retirement for bishops is 70, but Nigel McCulloch remained until his 71st birthday in mid-January 2013.