ST MARGARET CLITHEROW CENTRE - Key Persons
Archbishop Malcolm Patrick McMahon OP 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 Malcolm McMahon is the chair of the trustees. He was ordained for the Order of Preachers on 26 June 1982. He became Archbishop of Liverpool on 1 May 2014.
Bishop Neylon is the Titular Bishop of Plestia. Born in 1958, he is the oldest of three children of Irish parents who met in Warrington and were married at Sacred Heart Church in the town.
Bishop Tom began training for the priesthood at St Joseph's College, Upholland at the age of 16 and then at St Cuthbert's College, Ushaw, Durham. He was was ordained on 31 May 1982 in Heaton Park, Manchester by then-Pope St John Paul II during the Papal Visit.
Following his ordination, his first appointment was as assistant priest at St Cuthbert's, Wigan and four years later in 1986 he moved to join the Team Ministry serving Skelmersdale.
In 1996 he was appointed as parish priest of St Julie's, Eccleston, St Helens. In 2004 he took on responsibility for St Teresa's, Devon Street and in 2018, English Martyrs, Haydock. During his 24 years in St Helens, he also served as Dean of St Helens, was appointed as a Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Liverpool and as a member of the Chapter of Canons of the Metropolitan Cathedral of Christ the King.
In his spare time, Bishop Tom enjoys spending time with his family - his sister and her husband in Cumbria and his brother and his family in Newton-le-Willows. He also enjoys walking, reading and rugby league, where he supports Warrington Wolves.
Canon Michael is Episcopal Vicar for Education and parish priest of St Columba and St John Fisher in Huyton and Knowsley Village.
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Canon Prescott serves as the Moderator of the Curia of the Archdiocese. He was appointed as a Vicar General on 1 March 2021. He is also parish priest of St Clare and St Hugh near Sefton Park. He deals with the administrative functions pertaining to the ministry of the vicars general.
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Support for High School and College Chaplains
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He has been a member of FLAME for 27 years, travelling to Lourdes with children and young people with disabilities, and has also worked with the St Anthony's Lourdes Trust finding funding to train local teenagers to work with young people with disabilities in Lourdes. He has been Chair of Project Jennifer since it began in 2002, looking at the redevelopment of the Scotland Road and Great Homer Street districts.