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.