Metropolitan Archbishop of Liverpool

Archbishop Malcolm McMahon OP

Archbishop John Sherrington was ordained as an Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Titular Bishop of Hilta on 14th September 2011.

He is Chair of the Governing Body of Mater Ecclesiae College.
He served on the Methodist Roman Catholic International Commission (MERCIC) for ten years and was Co-Chair for five years. He was also for some years a Trustee of CAFOD which gave him further insight into the international mission of the Church.

Archbishop Sherrington was ordained as a bishop in 2011 by the then-Archbishop Vincent Nichols, the co-consecrators being Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor and the then-Bishop Malcolm McMahon of Nottingham.

Having been ordained a priest for the Diocese of Nottingham in 1987, before becoming a parish priest (2004-2011), he lectured in moral theology at All Hallows College, Dublin and St John’s Seminary, Wonersh where he was also a member of the formation staff.

In April 2024, Pope Francis appointed + John Sherrington as Archbishop of Liverpool.

Archbishop Emeritus Malcolm McMahon OP

Archbishop Malcolm lived in Holy Cross Priory, Leicester between 1984 and 1985, during which time he served as Catholic chaplain to Leicester Polytechnic (now De Montfort University), before moving to St Dominic’s, Haverstock Hill in north London.

He later served as parish priest of St Dominic’s, Newcastle-upon-Tyne before returning to St Dominic’s, Haverstock Hill. In 1992, he was elected Prior Provincial of the English Province of the Order of Preachers. In 2000 he was elected Prior of Blackfriars, Oxford.

On 7 November 2000, Pope John Paul II appointed him ninth Bishop of Nottingham, and he was ordained to the episcopate by Bishop James McGuinness in St Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham on 8 December 2000. He was installed as the ninth Archbishop of Liverpool on 1 May 2014, the Feast of St Joseph the Worker.

Archbishop McMahon is the vice president of the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, a trustee for the Catholic Trust for England and Wales (CATEW) and National President of Pax Christi, the International Catholic Movement for Peace.

Pope Francis accepted the resignation of +Malcolm on 5 April 2025 after he reached 75 years old.