05-04-2025
New Archbishop of Liverpool announced as Malcolm McMahon to retire
Liverpool Archbishop Malcolm McMahon has announced he is retiring. The Archbishop made the announcement at Morning Prayer on Saturday, April 5 at the city's Metropolitan Cathedral.
Archbishop McMahon has served as Archbishop of Liverpool since 2014. He was enthroned at Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral on May 1 2014, the Feast of Saint Joseph the Worker, before a congregation of 3,000 people Previously, he was Bishop of Nottingham from 2000 to 2014.
He will be succeeded by Bishop John Sherrington as the tenth Archbishop of Liverpool.
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Announcing his retirement and who his successor would be, Archbishop McMahon said: "In Rome some great news was announced this morning and we thank you for coming.
"The Holy Father has announced John Sherrington as the tenth Archbishop of Liverpool. We are grateful to God. Bishop Sherrington has considerable talents and skills, but most of all we are receiving a man of deep prayer who loves the Lord Jesus and who loves His Church.
"I have had the pleasure to serve with him in the Diocese of Nottingham and in the Bishops' Conference of England and Wales and I am delighted to welcome him today.
"Today is a day of jubilee, we have a new shepherd, teacher and high priest in our diocese.
"I am yesterday's man until Tuesday, May 27 when he will be installed."
Archbishop Sherrington's installation will take place in the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King on Tuesday, 27 May at 12 noon.
Ordained as a priest for the Diocese of Nottingham on 13 June 1987, Bishop Sherrington has been an Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and Titular Bishop of Hilta since 14 September 2011.
Archbishop McMahon was born and brought up in London. When he left school, he studied mechanical engineering at the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology.
He worked in the transport industry before joining the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in 1976 and was ordained to the priesthood by Cardinal Basil Hume on 26 June 1982.
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.
Bishop John Sherrington was born in Leicester on 5 January 1958. Before entering the seminary, he graduated with a BA in mathematics from Queens' College, Cambridge.
