Susan Brown (minister)


Susan Marjory Brown is a Scottish Presbyterian minister. She is the minister at Dornoch Cathedral and Honorary Chaplain to the Queen in Scotland. She was the first woman to take charge of a cathedral in the United Kingdom.

Early life and education

Brown was born on 12 December 1958 in Edinburgh, Scotland. She was educated at Penicuik High School, a non-denominational school in Midlothian. She went on to study at the University of Edinburgh, graduating with a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1981 and completing a Diploma in Ministry in 1983.

Ministry

She officiated at the wedding of Madonna and Guy Ritchie in 2000.
She was previously minister at Killearnan Church, near Muir of Ord in Ross-Shire.
On 9 October 2017, it was announced that she had been nominated as the next Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. She took up the position in May 2018 and served until May 2019.