| Type: | Priest |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Very Reverend |
| Susan Macdonald | |
| Dean of Edinburgh | |
| Church: | Scottish Episcopal Church |
| Diocese: | Diocese of Edinburgh |
| Term: | 2012 to 2017 |
| Predecessor: | John Armes |
| Successor: | Frances Burberry |
| Other Post: | Rector of Christ Church, Morningside, Edinburgh (2007–present) |
| Ordination: | 1996 (deacon) 1997 (priest) |
| Birth Date: | 11 July 1951 |
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| Nationality: | Scottish |
| Religion: | Anglicanism |
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| Alma Mater: | Edinburgh Theological College |
Susan Elizabeth MacDonald (born 11 July 1951) is a Scottish Anglican priest. She has been Rector of Christ Church, Morningside, Edinburgh since 2007. From 2012 to March 2017, she also served as the Dean of Edinburgh.[1]
Macdonald was born on 11 July 1951.[2] In 1993, she entered Edinburgh Theological College, an Anglican theological college to train for ordination in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
Macdonald was ordained in the Scottish Episcopal Church as a deacon in 1996 and as a priest in 1997. Between 1996 and 1998, she served her curacy as a non-stipendiary minister at St John the Evangelist, Jedburgh in the Diocese of Edinburgh. Then, from 1998 to 2001, she was a priest of St Peter's Church, Galashiels.
Macdonald was appointed to head her first church in 2001; that year, she became priest in charge of Gordon Chapel, Fochabers. From 2001 to 2004, she was also co-ordinator of Mission 21 for the Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness. She was a Canon of Inverness Cathedral from 2003 to 2004. She was Missioner for the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney from 2004 to 2007.[3]
Since 2007, she has been the Rector of Christ Church, Morningside, Edinburgh.[4] In March 2012, it was announced that she would be the next Dean of Edinburgh and therefore the first female dean in the Scottish Episcopal Church.[5] She was installed as Dean on 13 May 2012 at a service in Edinburgh Cathedral. On 5 March 2017, she stepped down as dean and was succeeded by the Frances Burberry.[6]