William Dunne was an Irish Roman Catholic priest who served as first bishop for the Diocese of Kitui, Kenya. He was born in Devlin, Ireland, in 1920. Dunne joined the

Kiltegan Fathers St. Patrick's Society for the Foreign Missions (Latin language, Latin ''Societas Sancti Patritii pro Missionibus ad Exteros''; also known as the Kiltegan Fathers) is a Catholic Church, Catholic society of apostolic life of pontifical right for me ...

and was ordained a priest in 1944. Dunne arrived in Kenya in 1951 when the Kiltegan Fathers took over Kitui from the Holy Ghost Fathers. He became Prefect Apostolic of Kitui in 1956. Dunne was ordained the first Bishop of Kitui in 1964. Retiring at the age of 75 in 1995, he was succeeded by Boniface Lele as bishop. Dunne died in Nairobi Hospital on 31 March 2002.Bishop William Dunne
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1920 births 2002 deaths 20th-century Irish Roman Catholic priests Irish expatriates in Kenya Roman Catholic missionaries in Kenya 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Kenya Irish expatriate Roman Catholic bishops Roman Catholic bishops of Kitui {{Ireland-RC-bishop-stub