[3] Educated at Prescot Grammar School and the University of Manchester, he studied for ordination at Ridley Hall, Cambridge before embarking on an ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Mary's Church, West Derby, Liverpool;[4] served a second curacy in Sutton Parish (in the same diocese); Incumbencies at Ditton, Southport and Kirkby in the same diocese followed,[5] before consecration to the episcopate on 24 June 1975 by Donald Coggan, Archbishop of Canterbury, at St Paul's Cathedral.
[10] Waine was also the Prelate of the Venerable Order of Saint John until 24 June 2007.
[11] At Petertide 1984 (1 July), as Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich, he made his son, Stephen (now Vicar of the Piddle Valley, Hilton, Cheselbourne and Melcombe Horsey), a deacon, at St Edmundsbury Cathedral (by letters dimissory from the vacant See of Lichfield).
[12] On 15 November 1996, Waine was appointed Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order[13] (KCVO).
On 12 November 1999 he was appointed Bailiff Grand Cross of the Order of St John (GCStJ).