sentences:  He is currently the Chaplain of the Church Lads' and Church Girls' Brigade and Episcopal Visitor of the Oratory of the Good Shepherd.Nicholls was curate of St Clement with St Cyprian, Salford from 1967 to 1969, curate of All Saints and Martyrs, Manchester from 1969 to 1972, and vicar from 1972 to 1978.Between 1978 and 1983, he was director of pastoral studies at the College of the Resurrection, Mirfield and between 1983 and 1990 a residential canon of Manchester Cathedral.