The Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon OP |
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Archbishop of Liverpool | |
Church | Roman Catholic Church |
Archdiocese | Liverpool |
Province | Liverpool |
Appointed | 21 March 2014 |
Installed | 1 May 2014 |
Predecessor | Patrick Altham Kelly |
Orders | |
Ordination | 26 June 1982 by Basil Hume |
Consecration | 8 December 2000 by James Joseph McGuinness |
Personal details | |
Birth name | Malcolm Patrick McMahon |
Born |
London, England |
14 June 1949
Nationality | English |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Previous post | Bishop of Nottingham |
Motto | Non nisi te (Only you, Lord) |
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Styles of Malcolm McMahon |
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Reference style | The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Grace |
Religious style | Archbishop |
Malcolm Patrick McMahon, OP (born 14 June 1949) is an English prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. Since 2014, he has been the ninth Archbishop of Liverpool. Previously, he was Bishop of Nottingham from 2000 to 2014.
Malcolm McMahon was born in London, the second of three brothers and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology before working for London Transport. In 1976, he decided upon an ecclesiastical career and joined the Dominican Order. Making his religious profession in December 1977, McMahon studied philosophy at Blackfriars, Oxford and theology at Heythrop College. He was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basil Hume on 26 June 1982.
He served as chaplain of Leicester Polytechnic for the 1986/7 academic year, whence he served in a London parish. McMahon later became Parish Priest of St Dominic's in Newcastle upon Tyne (1989), and of St Dominic's in (1990). He was elected prior provincial of the Dominicans' English Province in both 1992 and 1996. In 2000, he was elected prior of Blackfriars, Oxford.