Bishop Kevin W. Vann was ordained and installed as the third bishop of the Diocese of Fort Worth on Wednesday, July 13, 2005, at Daniel-Meyer Coliseum at Texas Christian University.

Appointed Bishop-designate of Fort Worthin May of 2005, he served as vicar for priests of the diocese and on the diocesan Committee for Hispanic Ministry, the Commission for the Care of Infirm and Retired Priests, the Priests' Personnel Board, and the Presbyteral Council.

Bishop Vann was born on May 10, 1951 and is the oldest of six children. He was ordained in the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois on May 30, 1981. He served as the pastor of Blessed Sacrament Parish in Springfield - incidentally the church that he was baptized in and that his parents were married in! Bishop Vann has received two degrees from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, a licentiate and a doctorate in canon law and has also studied Spanish in Guadalajara, Mexico.