Alan Hopes

Alan Stephen Hopes ( born March 14, 1944 in Oxford, United Kingdom) is Roman Catholic Bishop of East Anglia.

Life

He went to Oxford High School until 1956 he went to London to Enfield Grammar School. In 1963 he began his training in theology at King's College London, graduated in 1966. After visiting the Warminster Theological College he was ordained a priest of the Church of England in 1968.

After his time as a priest in London before becoming a canon of London's St Paul's Cathedral, he converted in 1992, as well as Graham Leonard, to the Roman Catholic faith. In the Catholic Church, he was ordained on 4 December 1995, after three years studying theology as a priest and then worked as a parish pastor in Our Lady of Victories in Kensington and in Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More Parish in Chelsea.

He was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Westminster in 2001 and 2002 as a member of the Committee Christian life and liturgy of the Episcopal Conference. At the age of 58 years, Hope was appointed on 4 January 2003 as Auxiliary Bishop in Westminster and Titular Bishop of Cuncacestre. The bishop ordained Hopes on 24 January 2003 at Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Cormac Murphy - O'Connor; Co-consecrators were the Bishop of Leeds, Arthur Roche, and the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, Kieran Conry.

On January 13, 2011, he consecrated the former Anglican bishops Andrew Burnham, John Broadhurst and Keith Newton to Catholic deacons.

On June 11, 2013, Pope Francis Hopes Bishop of East Anglia. The inauguration took place on July 16 of the same year.