BY Daniel Harkins | May 18 | 
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Bishop of Nottingham named
Mgr Patrick McKinney succeeds Bishop Malcolm McMahon, who was appointed Archbishop of Liverpool last year
Pope Francis has appointed Mgr Patrick McKinney as the new Bishop of Nottingham.
Mgr McKinney will be the tenth Bishop of Nottingham, succeeding Bishop Malcolm McMahon, who was appointed Archbishop of Liverpool in March last year.
The new bishop will be ordained to the episcopate by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, in St Barnabas’ Cathedral, Nottingham on July 3 2015.
“Throughout my priestly ministry, now almost 37 years, I have always tried to do my best in whatever has been asked of me,” Mgr McKinney said. “In this I have been deeply conscious of God’s abundant grace and mercy, and I have been greatly sustained by the prayerful support of my brother priests, the deacons and religious in the Archdiocese of Birmingham, and by the prayers of the parishioners whom I have been privileged to serve. I will miss them all very much.
“I have much to learn as I prepare to take up my new ministry within the Diocese of Nottingham, but am greatly looking forward to it.”
“The Diocese of Nottingham is a big diocese with a big heart, and I hope that Mgr McKinney will be as happy as Bishop of Nottingham as I was for almost 14 years,” Bishop Malcolm McMahon said.
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