Kevin John Dunn

Kevin John Dunn (9 July 1950 – 1 March 2008) was the twelfth Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle.

Early life Kevin John Dunn was born in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire on 9 July 1950 and educated at St Mary's Primary School and St Patrick's Secondary School (both Newcastle-under-Lyme). / He studied at Christleton Hall in Chester, and studied A Levels at Cotton College, North Staffordshire. He studied for the priesthood at Oscott College, Birmingham, and was ordained at Our Lady and St Werbergh's Church, Clayton, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 17 January 1976.

Among his achievements, he opened the Alan Shearer Centre for people with disabilities, created a house in Penshaw for potential seminary candidates and helped to raise money to establish the Bede Chair of Catholic Theology at Durham University.