Alan Hopes
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The Right Reverend Alan Hopes |
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| Bishop of East Anglia | |
Bishop Hopes in 2011
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| Church | Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist |
| Province | Westminster |
| Diocese | East Anglia |
| See | East Anglia |
| Appointed | 11 June 2013 |
| Installed | 16 July 2013 |
| Predecessor | Michael Charles Evans |
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| Consecration | 24 January 2003 by Cormac Murphy-O'Connor |
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| Birth name | Alan Stephen Hopes |
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14 March 1944 Oxford, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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| Alma mater | King's College London |
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| Ordination history of Alan Hopes | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Date of ordination | 4 December 1995 |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Cormac Murphy-O’Connor |
| Co-consecrator | Arthur Roche |
| Co-consecrator | Kieran Conry |
| Date of consecration | 24 January 2003 |
| Place of consecration | Westminster Cathedral |
Alan Stephen Hopes (born 14 March 1944) is a British Roman Catholic prelate. Since 2013, he has been the Bishop of East Anglia. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of Westminster and titular bishop of Cuncacestre.
He was born in Oxford, England on 14 March 1944. Hopes was educated at Oxford High School until he moved to London in 1956, when he attended Enfield Grammar School. In 1963 he began a degree in theology at King's College London, taking his degree in 1966. He then attended Warminster Theological College.
Hopes was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1968. Hopes served as a priest in the Church of England until 1994. He was Vicar of St Paul's Church, Tottenham from 1978 to 1994.
In 1994, he was received into the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained a Roman Catholic priest on 4 December 1995. For three years he served as assistant priest at Our Lady of Victories in Kensington, London, before becoming parish priest of the Holy Redeemer and St Thomas More Parish, Chelsea.
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