Len Black

Leonard Albert "Len" Black (born 19 March 1949) 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. 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 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.