The Right Reverend Malcolm McMahon, OP
Bishop of Nottingham
Born in London on 14 June 1949, Malcolm McMahon was educated at St Aloysius College, Highgate, and UMIST in Manchester, where he graduated in mechanical engineering. After working for the Daimler Motor Company in Coventry and London Transport, he joined the Dominican Order in 1976, and studied at Blackfriars, Oxford. He was professed in 1977, and ordained priest in 1982.
He continued to study at Blackfriars and at Heythrop College, London, before becoming chaplain at Leicester Polytechnic (1984-85). From 1985 to 1989 he was an assistant priest in London, and became parish priest at St Dominic’s, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, in 1989. Later that year he was appointed prior and parish priest at St Dominic’s, Haverstock Hill, London.
In 1992 he was elected Prior Provincial of the English Province of Dominicans, based in London. He was re-elected in 1996 and held office 2001.
Fr McMahon was national chaplain to Marriage Care from 1992 to 1993, and a member of Marriage Care’s national executive from 1993 to 1999.
He was appointed as Bishop of Nottingham on 7 November 2000 and ordained on 8 December 2000, at the Cathedral Church of St Barnabas, Nottingham.
Bishop McMahon is Chair of the Department of Evangelisation and Catechesis of the Bishops Conference. He is National President of Pax Christi, the International Catholic Movement for Peace.