Malcolm Patrick McMahon,OP,KC*HS (born 14 June 1949) is anEnglish Catholic prelate who has served asArchbishop of Liverpool since 2014. Previously, he wasBishop of Nottingham from 2000 to 2014. He is a member of theDominican Order.

His GraceThe Most Reverend Malcolm McMahon OPKC*HS
Archbishop of Liverpool Vice President of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales
McMahon pictured in 2011
Church	Roman Catholic Church
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of Liverpool
Province	Province of Liverpool
Appointed	21 March 2014
Installed	1 May 2014
Predecessor	Patrick Kelly
Successor	Incumbent
Other post(s)	Chair of theCatholic Education Service (CES) Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Trust for England and Wales (CATEW) National President ofPax Christi National Ecclesiastical Advisor to theKnights of Saint Columba
Previous post(s)	Bishop of Nottingham (2000–2014) Prior ofBlackfriars, Oxford (2000) Prior Provincial of the English Province of theDominican Order (1992–2000)
Orders
Ordination	26 June 1982 by Basil Hume
Consecration	8 December 2000 by James Joseph McGuinness
Personal details
Born	Malcolm Patrick McMahon (1949-06-14)14 June 1949 (age 75) London, England
Nationality	English
Denomination	Roman Catholic Church
Residence	Archbishop's House, Salisbury Road, Liverpool
Alma mater	University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
Motto	'Non Nisi Te' (None but you, Lord)
Coat of arms

Styles of Malcolm McMahon
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Grace
Religious style	Archbishop

Malcolm McMahon was born in London, the second of three brothers and studied mechanical engineering at theUniversity of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology before working forLondon Transport. In 1976, he decided upon an ecclesiastical career and joined theDominican Order. Making hisreligious profession in December 1977, McMahon studied philosophy atBlackfriars, Oxford and theology atHeythrop College. He wasordained to the priesthood byCardinal Basil Hume on 26 June 1982.

He served as chaplain ofLeicester Polytechnic for the 1986/7 academic year, whence he served in a Londonparish. McMahon later becameParish Priest ofSt Dominic's inNewcastle upon Tyne (1989), and ofSt Dominic's inHaverstock Hill (1990). He was electedpriorprovincial of the Dominicans' English Province in both 1992 and 1996. In 2000, he was elected prior ofBlackfriars, Oxford.

On 7 November 2000, McMahon was appointedBishop of Nottingham byPope John Paul II. He received hisepiscopal consecration on the following 8 December from BishopJames Joseph McGuinness, with BishopsVictor Guazzelli andPatrick O'Donoghue serving asco-consecrators, in theCathedral Church of St. Barnabas.

McMahon's name had been mentioned as a possible successor toCormac Murphy-O'Connor asArchbishop of Westminster^[1] and toKevin McDonald asArchbishop of Southwark. He serves as Chair of the Department of Education and Formation of theCatholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, Chair of theCatholic Education Service, Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Catholic Trust of England & Wales, Ecclesiastical Advisor to theKnights of Saint Columba, and President of the British Section ofPax Christi, the international Catholic peace movement.

On 21 March 2014Pope Francis appointed Bishop McMahon as the ninth Archbishop of theMetropolitan See of Liverpool.^[2] Archbishop McMahon wasenthroned atLiverpool Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King on 1 May 2014, the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, before a congregation of three thousand.

During his tenure in Liverpool, in 2017 and 2018, Archbishop McMahon ordained priests for thePriestly Fraternity of Saint Peter inSt Mary's Church, Warrington,^[3] utilising the pre-1970 rite of ordination.^[4]

Archbishop McMahon has said that there is no doctrinal reason preventing priests from having wives:^[5]

There is no reason why priests shouldn't be allowed to marry. It has always been a matter of discipline rather than doctrine[...]It is a question of justice for those men who want to be priests and to have a wife. Marriage should not bar them from their vocation but they must be married before they are ordained. The justice issue also applies to communities which could be deprived of the Eucharist because there aren't enough priests.

He considers clerical celibacy as a "spiritual necessity". In a pastoral letter read in the Diocese of Nottingham on Sunday 25 October 2009, then Bishop McMahon said:^[6]

Another aspect of priesthood that is often challenged is that of mandatory celibacy for our priests. Yet the celibate priesthood in the Roman Catholic Church has always been understood as a special gift that we should treasure. In our tradition, celibacy is not a mere external rule but a spiritual necessity.

He also supports the role of women in Catholic Church, but is against the ordination of women as priests:^[7]

I look forward to the day when women play a greater role in ministry and take up more of a place in the Church, but not in sacred orders.

In the same pastoral letter, Bishop McMahon said:^[8]

In the Mass, the Church follows the words of Christ himself when the bread and wine are consecrated; it has not made up these words, neither does the Church consider that it has the authority to make such a change. In a similar way only men are ordained in the Church because to ordain women would be to devise something that Christ did not institute.

In April 2010, Bishop McMahon appeared on the BBC'sHard Talk to discuss the Church's response to the sexual abuse of children. He defended the work of the Holy See and the Church in England and Wales on this and expressed the hope that the Vatican would become more open and transparent in its treatment of victims and perpetrators.

In his free time, the Archbishop enjoys playing golf and listening to live music and opera but also admits to being a fan ofNorah Jones.

On 21 March 2017, Hardman Portrait published a portrait of Archbishop McMahon to be displayed to the public in theLiverpool Metropolitan Cathedral Crypt. Archbishop McMahon is depicted in choir dress, mirroring the black and white portrait of his predecessorArchbishop Richard Downey. The portrait is one of a series of works depicting current members of Liverpool society alongside their predecessors.^[9][10]

• "Archbishop Malcolm Patrick McMahon, O.P."Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved11 October 2022.
• Archdiocese of Liverpool
• Diocese of Nottingham