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 Castle Dornoch Castle Dornoch Castle is situated opposite Dornoch Cathedral in the village of Dornoch, in Sutherland, Scotland, a little over north of Inverness. Dornoch Castle was built around 1500 as the home of the bishops of Caithness. Bishop Robert Stewart gifted the castle to John Gordon, 11th Earl of Sutherland in 1557. In 1570 the castle was set alight in a feud between the McKays and Murrays. The rebuilding which followed included the addition of the upper part of the tower. The castle decayed during the 18th century, but was restored in 1813–1814 to serve as a school and jail.