Patrick Kelly was born in Kilsyth in 1935. He was educated at Blairs Junior Seminary in Aberdeen and Drygrange Seminary. He was ordained in 1959.

His first Parish was St Ninian's Edinburgh where he was to serve as assistant Priest for 7 years from 1959 to 1966. He was then transferred to St Mary of the Angels at Camelon in Falkirk where he was to serve as assistant priest for a further 2 years from 1966 to 1967. Fr Kelly was then transferred to St Margaret's Dunfermline from 1967 until 1972.

His first Parish as the Parish Priest was Our Lady of Lorretto and St Michael in Musselburgh where he served from 1972 to 1985.

He was then transferred to St John Vianney's in Edinburgh in 1985.

We are not sure of the exact date of Fr Kelly's retiral however he now lives in ill health in retirement in Newmills in Fife having celebrated the golden jubilee of his ordination to the Priesthood in 2009.