Patrick McKinney

The Right Reverend Patrick McKinney S.T.L
Bishop of Nottingham
Province	Westminster
Diocese	Nottingham
Appointed	14 May 2015
Installed	3 July 2015
Predecessor	Malcolm McMahon
Orders
Consecration	3 July 2015 by Vincent Nichols
Personal details
Born	(1954-04-30) 30 April 1954
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Residence	Bishop's House, Nottingham
Parents	Patrick and Bridget McKinney
Previous post	Parish Priest of Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge Dean of Dudley Deanery Episcopal Vicar Parish Priest of St John's, Great Haywood Rector, St Mary's College, Oscott Lecturer, St Mary's College, Oscott Chair of Birmingham Archdiocesan Ecumenical Commission
Motto	Quaerite Christi Vultum (Seek the face of Christ)
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Patrick Joseph McKinney is the 10th Bishop of Nottingham. His appointment was announced on 14 May 2015 by Pope Francis. He previously served as a member of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and Rector of St Mary's College, Oscott.

Early life

Monsignor Patrick McKinney was born on 30 April 1954, the eldest son of Irish immigrants Patrick and Bridget McKinney, and brought up in Birmingham. He began his studies for the priesthood at St Mary's College, Oscott, the Archdiocese of Birmingham’s seminary for the training of priests, in 1972, and was ordained to the priesthood on 29 July 1978 in St Mary’s Church, Buncrana, Co Donegal, Ireland, where his family lives.^[1]

Priesthood

After his Ordination he was appointed assistant priest in the parish of Our Lady of Lourdes, Yardley Wood, Birmingham, and chaplain to St Thomas Aquinas Secondary School, Kings Norton, Birmingham. Between 1982 and 1984, he was a student at the Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, where he gained a Licentiate of Sacred Theology. Returning to the Archdiocese of Birmingham, he taught fundamental theology in St Mary’s College until 1989, when he was appointed Rector of St Mary’s College, a post he held for nine years, during which period he was also a lecturer in ecclesiology, the theology of the Church.^[2]

He left the College in 1998, and until 2001 he was parish priest of St John’s, Great Haywood, and Episcopal Vicar for the north of the Archdiocese of Birmingham. He left the parish in 2001, remaining as Episcopal Vicar until 2006 when he was appointed parish priest of Our Lady and All Saints, Stourbridge and Dean of the Dudley Deanery.^[2]

He was made a Prelate of Honour in 1990 and a member of the Metropolitan Chapter of St Chad in 1992, and has served for a time as Chair of the Birmingham Archdiocesan Ecumenical Commission.

Bishop

Monsignor McKinney was appointed tenth Bishop of Nottingham in succession to the Most Rev Malcolm McMahon OP, Archbishop of Liverpool, on 14 May 2015, and was consecrated by Cardinal Vincent Nichols, Archbishop of Westminster, in St Barnabas’ Cathedral, Nottingham on Friday 3 July 2015.^[2]

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