David Lunn

{{Short description|British Anglican bishop (1930–2021)}}

{{for|British businessman|David Lunn-Rockliffe}}

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{{Use British English|date=July 2021}}

{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend

| name = David Lunn

| honorific-suffix =

| title = Bishop of Sheffield

| diocese = Diocese of Sheffield

| term = 1980–1997 (retired)

| predecessor = Gordon Fallows

| successor = Jack Nicholls

| other_post = Honorary assistant bishop in York (1998–2021)

| ordination = 1955 (deacon); 1956 (priest)

| consecration = {{circa|1980}}

| birth_date = {{birth date|1930|7|17|}}

| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|7|19|1930|7|17|df=y}}

| religion = Anglican

| residence =

| parents =

| alma_mater = King's College, Cambridge

}}

David Ramsay Lunn (17 July 1930 – 19 July 2021) was a British Anglican bishop. From 1980 to 1997, he was Bishop of Sheffield in the Church of England.{{cite web |title=The Passing Of The Rt Revd David Lunn |date=22 July 2021 |url=https://www.sheffieldcathedral.org/news/2021/7/22/the-passing-of-the-rt-revd-david-lunn |publisher=Sheffield Cathedral |access-date=19 August 2021}}

Lunn was born on Tyneside and educated at the Kings School, Tynemouth, where he was head boy in 1947, and King's College, Cambridge.[http://www.sheffield-diocese.org.uk/Past_Bishops_of_Sheffield.html A Brief Synopsis Of Previous Bishops Of The See Of Sheffield] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025102945/http://www.sheffield-diocese.org.uk/Past_Bishops_of_Sheffield.html |date=25 October 2008 }}, Tony Beck, Diocese of Sheffield. Retrieved on 30 October 2008.{{London Gazette|issue=48028|page=15699|date=13 December 1979}}{{London Gazette|issue=54888|page=10205|date=9 September 1997}}

An Anglo-Catholic, he was opposed to the ordination of women, seeing it as an issue that needed examination at an ecumenical level. During his episcopacy, he oversaw an increase in lay ministry within the diocese, but also increased the number of clergy and improved the diocese's financial position. The period also saw the creation of the Nine O'Clock Service within one of the diocese's churches. Initially this seemed to be a successful attempt to broaden the appeal of the church, but in the end the project collapsed and required strong leadership from Lunn to heal the resulting wounds. Following the Hillsborough Disaster, he implemented the clergy disaster plan to improve the church's response to such disasters in future.

In 1997 Lunn was awarded an honorary LL.D. degree by Sheffield University.{{cite news|url=https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.422814!/file/15_hon-grad.pdf|title=Honorary Graduates|publisher=Sheffield University|accessdate=20 July 2021|page=8|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304095449/https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/polopoly_fs/1.422814!/file/15_hon-grad.pdf|url-status=dead}} After retirement, during which he settled at Wetwang, he became an assistant bishop in the Diocese of York in 1991.{{Who's Who

| title=Lunn, David Ramsay

| id = U25115

| volume = 2014

| edition = December 2013 online

| access-date = 23 August 2014

}}