Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien was a senior-ranking Catholic prelate in Scotland. He was the Archbishop of Saint Andrews and Edinburgh from 1985 to 2013.
O'Brien in 2007
Reporters outside St Bennets, O'Brien's Edinburgh residence, on the day he resigned
Catholic Church in Scotland
The Catholic Church in Scotland overseen by the Scottish Bishops' Conference, is part of the worldwide Catholic Church headed by the Pope. After being firmly established in Scotland for nearly a millennium, the Catholic Church was outlawed following the Scottish Reformation in 1560. Throughout the centuries of religious persecution changes, several pockets in Scotland retained a significant pre-Reformation Catholic population, including Banffshire, the Hebrides, and more northern parts of the Highlands, Galloway at Terregles House, Munches House, Kirkconnell House, New Abbey and Parton House and at Traquair in Peebleshire.
Crucifixion of Saint Andrew, by Juan Correa de Vivar (1540–1545)
St Mary's Metropolitan Cathedral Edinburgh
An illuminated page from the Book of Kells, which may have been produced at Iona around 800
The hanging of Saint John Ogilvie