Leonard Albert Black (born 19 March 1949) is a Roman Catholic priest in Scotland and part of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.
[1] He was educated at the Bernard Gilpin Society, in Durham, England;[2] this was an organisation that helped men achieve the academic qualifications required to study for ordination.
[7] 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.
[8] Black undertook the ordinariate formation for Catholic priesthood at Allen Hall Seminary in London,[2] and was then ordained priest by Bishop Philip Tartaglia (Archbishop of Glasgow 2012 to 2021) in July 2011.
[8][9] During Covid-related lockdowns, Black transformed a shed in his garden in Inverness into "The Oratory of St Joseph" and livestreamed Mass to his small congregation.