David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes

The Most Reverend and Right Honourable The Lord Hope of Thornes KCVO PC
Archbishop of York
Diocese	Diocese of York
In office	1995–2005
Predecessor	John Habgood
Successor	John Sentamu
Orders
Ordination	1965 (deacon); 1966 (priest)
Consecration	1985
Personal details
Born	(1940-04-14) 14 April 1940 (age 76)
Denomination	Anglican
Previous post	Bishop of London (1991–1995) Bishop of Wakefield (1985–1991)
Alma mater	University of Nottingham


Member of the House of Lords Lord Temporal
In office 4 April 2005 – 30 April 2015 Life Peerage
Member of the House of Lords Lord Spiritual
In office 2 July 1991 – 28 February 2005

David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes KCVO, PC (born 14 April 1940) is a British life peer and retired Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Wakefield between 1985 and 1991, and the Bishop of London between 1991 and 1995. From 1995 to 2005, he was the Archbishop of York in the Church of England. In March 2005, he was made a life peer and therefore a member of the House of Lords; he had already sat in the house as a Lord Spiritual when he was a bishop. He retired from the Lords in April 2015.

Hope was ordained deacon in 1965 and priest in 1966. After a curacy in West Derby he was Vicar of Orford from 1970 to 1974. In that year he became Principal of St Stephen's House, an Anglo-Catholic theological college in Oxford, from 1974 until 1982. He was Vicar of All Saints, Margaret Street, an Anglo-Catholic church in the West End of London from 1982 to 1985.

Hope was nominated to become Bishop of Wakefield on 2 July 1985,consecrated as a bishop by John Habgood, Archbishop of York, on 18 October at York Minster and enthroned at Wakefield Cathedral on 29 October. He was translated to become Bishop of London with the confirmation of his election to that See on 2 July 1991 and enthroned at St Paul's Cathedral on 14 September. Hope was Master of the Guardians of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham from 1982 to 1993.