Kit Cunningham

Who was Kit Cunningham?

Christopher Basil "Kit" Cunningham IC, MBE was a British priest. For almost 30 years, as the rector of St Etheldreda's Church, Ely Place, Cunningham was one of London’s best-known Roman Catholic parish priests. His death, in 2010, was widely reported in the media. In 2011 it became publicly known that he had been involved in sexual abuse at a school in Tanzania in the 1960s.

Cunningham was educated at Ratcliffe College and entered the Rosminian religious order.