Cardinal Keith Patrick O'Brien

Biography

• Place of Birth: Ballycastle, Co.Antrim, Ireland
• Date of Birth:17th March 1938
• Education: Saint Patricks High School, Dumbarton and Holy Cross Academy, Edinburgh University (B.Sc.,1959- Dip.Ed., 1966); Saint Andrew's College Drygrange, Roxburghshire.
• Ordained Priest: Edinburgh, 3rd April 1965
• Assistant Priest: Holy Cross, Edinburgh, 1965-66, St. Bride, Cowdenbeath, 1966-71, St. Patrick, Kilsyth, 1972-75, St. Mary, Bathgate, 1975-78
• Spiritual Director: St. Andrew's College, Drygrange; 1978-80 rector, St. Mary's College Blairs, 1980-85
• Nominated Archbishop of St. Andrews and Edinburgh: 30th May 1985, and ordained by Gordon Gray, Cardinal Priest and Archbishop emeritus at St. Andrews and Edinburgh, at Edinburgh, 5th August 1985 Sovereign Military Order of Malta: Grand Cross conventual chaplain, 1985 founded Gillis College, Edinburgh, 7th September 1986. Gillis College was closed as the Diocesan Seminary and the students transferred to the new National Major Seminary in September 1993. Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Knight Commander with Star 1991. Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, 1996.
• Elevated to College of Cardinals by Pope John Paul II on 21st October 2003.

Contact Information

42 Greenhill Gardens
Edinburgh
EH10 4BJ
Tel No: 0131 447 3337
Fax No: 0131 447 0816
E-mail address: cardinal@staned.org.uk
Web site: http://www.archdiocese-edinburgh.com/cardinal_about.htm