Len Black

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Leonard Albert "Len" Black (born 19 March 1949^[1]) is a Roman Catholic priest in Scotland and part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. He was formerly an Anglican priest in the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Black was educated at the Bernard Gilpin Society, Sands House in Durham and the Edinburgh Theological College. He was ordained in 1973.^[2] He was curate at St Margaret of Scotland, Aberdeen and then Chaplain of St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee. From 1977 to 1980 he was priest in charge of St Ninian’s Aberdeen when he became Rector of St Michael and All Angels, Inverness^[3] He was Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness from 2003 to 2009.

He resigned as Rector of St Michael and All Angels Inverness in March 2011 and, accompanied by a group of lay people, became part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. They were received into the Catholic Church on Easter morning 2011. Black was ordained priest by Bishop Philip Tartaglia (now Archbishop of Glasgow) in July 2011 and set up an Ordinariate Group in Scotland.

Black is also an author ^[4]

Religious titles
Preceded by Michael Francis Hickford	Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness 2003 to 2009	Succeeded by Clifford John Piper

Notes

↑ Who's Who 2008: London, A & C Black, 2008 ISBN 9780713672576
↑ Crockfords (London, Church House, 1995) ISBN 0715180886
↑ .Church website
↑ Among others he has written Sir Ninian Comper - Liturgical Architect (1999), The Church that Moved Across the Water (2003) and Churches of the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness (2004), British Library website, 18 January 2011

v t e Deans of Moray, Ross and Caithness

William Christie John Ferguson John Archibald Hay Wilson Leofric Hay-Dinwoody Walter Jenks Charles Robertson Clarence Wolfe William Gow Iain McHardy Cyril Barnes Stewart Mallin John Paul Robin Forrest Michael Hickford Len Black Cliff Piper

v t e Scottish Episcopal Church

Bishops	The Primus: David Chillingworth, Bishop of St Andrews, Dunkeld and Dunblane Bob Gillies, Bishop of Aberdeen and Orkney Mark Strange, Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness Gregor Duncan, Bishop of Glasgow and Galloway Kevin Pearson, Episcopal Bishop of Argyll and The Isles Nigel Peyton, Bishop of Brechin John Armes, Bishop of Edinburgh

Dioceses	Aberdeen & Orkney Argyll & The Isles Brechin Edinburgh Glasgow & Galloway Moray, Ross & Caithness St Andrews, Dunkeld & Dunblane

Persondata
Name	Black, Leonard Albert
Alternative names	Len
Short description	Catholic Priest of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham
Date of birth	19 March 1949
Place of birth	Glasgow
Date of death
Place of death

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