Susan Brown (minister) Scotland. She took up the position in May 2018. Susan Brown (minister) Susan M. Brown (born 12 December 1958) 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. She has officiated at the weddings of Madonna and Guy Ritchie, and of Ashley Judd and Dario Franchitti. 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
Dornoch Cathedral Dornoch Cathedral Dornoch Cathedral is a parish church in the Church of Scotland, serving the small Sutherland town of Dornoch, in the Scottish Highlands. As a congregation of the Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian, the church is not the seat of a bishop but retains the name due to being, historically, the seat of the Bishop of Caithness. The Cathedral's churchyard is adjoined by Dornoch Castle, the somewhat reconstructed remains of the medieval palace of the Bishops of Caithness. It was built in the 13th century, in the reign of King Alexander II (1214–49) and the episcopate of Gilbert