Kevin Bond Allen
Kevin Bond Allen (born 1954), a bishop of the Anglican Church in North America, was born in 1954 and grew up in Silverdale, Washington. He graduated from the University of Washington and completed his graduate studies at the (Roman Catholic) Seattle University. He served as a Youth Leader during his college years and, determining a call to ministry in the Episcopal Church, he went on to complete a Masters in Divinity while studying at both General Theological Seminary in New York and Ridley Hall in Cambridge, UK. Kevin served as a Lay Missioner in a Church of  England inner-city London parish, reaching out to low-income multi-racial communities. He would go on to serve for a few months as a missioner in Bangladesh with the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel. Ordained in the Episcopal Church in 1988, he served as a priest from 1988-2007 in parishes, including: vicar of a Cambodian Refugee Church in Tacoma, Associate Rector in Bellevue, and then rector in Puyallup, WA, as a Rector of a large university parish in Austin, TX and later Rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and Board President of St. Paul 's Academy Bellingham, WA. In 2007, after leaving the Episcopal Church, Kevin was installed as the first full-time rector of St. Brendan's Anglican Church Bellingham, a church plant that he helped found. He would later lead the congregation to join the Anglican Church in North America when it was formally established. Kevin co-founded a new diocese in the Pacific Northwest, the Diocese of Cascadia, which Kevin was unanimously elected the Bishop of in 2011 during the first diocesan synod. He was consecrated by Archbishop Robert Duncan and 23 other bishops of the ACNA. Under his leadership, the  geographic diocese of the Diocese of Cascadia began with 7 congregations and has grown to 27 congregations, church plants, and mission start-ups spread across Oregon, Washington, and Alaska. He was appointed to head the companion relationship between the ACNA and the Church of the Province of Myanmar (Anglican). He and his wife have traveled extensively and participated in teaching and ministry. Kevin first became interested in ecumenism through a friendship with an Orthodox Church in America (OCA) priest while serving in Puyallup, WA, where he became chair of the local Pastor’s Association. He later founded and chaired the  University Pastor’s Association in Austin, TX, and was part of the Western Christian Faculty Forum at Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA. He was honored to be the first ACNA Bishop invited to attend an OCA All America Council which was held in 2011 in Bellevue, WA. Because of this background, Archbishop Robert Duncan appointed Bishop Kevin as chair of the ACNA-Orthodox Church of America Dialogue for the ACNA. He co-led the Moscow meeting of ACNA Archbishop Foley Beach with His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Jerusalem meeting with the Greek Orthodox  Patriarch Theophilus III. He also serves on the Native American Ministry Task Force, as president of the Board of Share Our Ministries Abroad (SOMA-USA), and sub-Dean of the ACNA Ecumenical Affairs. Archbishop Foley Beach, in 2019 at the June ACNA Provincial Assembly, appointed Bishop Allen as Dean of College of Bishops Affairs concurrent with his continued ministry as the diocesan Bishop of Cascadia. Personal life. Kevin is married to Stefanie Allen, a former faculty member of the English Department at Tacoma Community College, and later high school teacher and administrator. They have one son (a bi-vocational Anglican  priest) and daughter-in-law who serve a parish in the Diocese of Cascadia.