Right Reverend Malcolm McMahon OP (1949 – )

Ninth Bishop of Nottingham  (8 Dec 2000 – )

Motto: Non nisi Te
(None but You)

Malcolm Patrick McMahon was born in London in 1949 and educated at St Dominic’s Primary School. He moved to St Aloysius College, Highgate before he studied Mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST). After graduating he worked for the Daimler Motor Company in Coventry and then for London Transport.

In 1976 Malcolm McMahon joined the Dominican Order, beginning his Noviciate and Philosophical Studies at Blackfriars, Oxford before being professed in December 1977. He began his studies in Theology at Heythrop College in 1979 and was ordained priest in 1982. Fr Malcolm continued his studies at Heythrop and Blackfriars after ordination and was appointed Chaplain to the Students at Leicester Polytechnic in 1984-5. In 1985 Fr Malcolm was a curate in London until his appointment as Parish Priest of St Dominic’s, Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1989. Later that year Fr Malcolm was appointed parish priest of St Dominic’s, Haverstock Hill, London. In 1992 the members of the English Province of
Dominicans elected Fr Malcolm as their Prior Provincial, and re-elected him in 1996. Early in 2000, Fr Malcolm was appointed Prior of Blackfriars in Oxford at the end of his second term as Prior Provincial.

On 7 November 2000, Fr Malcolm McMahon OP was appointed ninth Bishop of Nottingham and was ordained Bishop by Bishop McGuinness in the Cathedral Church of St Barnabas on 8 December 2000