1. Patrick McKinney's appointment was announced on 14 May 2015 by Pope Francis.
10 Facts About Patrick McKinney
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Patrick McKinney previously served as a member of the clergy of the Archdiocese of Birmingham and Rector of St Mary's College, Oscott.
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Patrick McKinney was born on 30 April 1954, the eldest son of Irish immigrants Patrick and Bridget McKinney, and brought up in Birmingham.
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Patrick McKinney 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.
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Patrick McKinney 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.
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Patrick McKinney 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.
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Patrick McKinney 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.
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Monsignor McKinney was appointed tenth bishop of Nottingham in succession to 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.
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The victim claims that Bishop Patrick McKinney had been obstinate in not pursuing his claims against a priest from the Diocese of Nottingham, who reportedly committed the act whilst visiting a diocese in Ireland.
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Patrick McKinney has been an advocate for the cause of canonisation of Venerable Mary Potter, a religious sister who worked in the Diocese of Nottingham.