Education
Black was educated at the Bernard Gilpin Society, Sands House in Durham and the Edinburgh Theological College.
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 Street Margaret of Scotland, Aberdeen and then Chaplain of Street Paul"s Cathedral, Dundee. From 1977 to 1980 he was priest in charge of Street Ninian’s, Aberdeen when he became Rector of Street Michael and All Angels, Inverness He was Dean of Moray, Ross and Caithness from 2003 to 2009.
He resigned as Rector of Street 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.
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