Alan Hopes
{{short description|British Catholic bishop}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
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| type = bishop
| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| name = Alan Hopes
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| title = Bishop Emeritus of East Anglia
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| caption = Bishop Hopes in 2019
| church = Roman Catholic Church
| province = Westminster
| diocese = East Anglia
| see = East Anglia
| appointed = 11 June 2013
| term =
| term_start = 16 July 2013
| term_end = 11 October 2022
| predecessor = Michael Charles Evans
| successor = Peter Collins
| other_post =
| ordination = 1968 (Anglican priest)
4 December 1995 (Catholic priest)
| ordained_by = George Basil Cardinal Hume
| consecration = 24 January 2003
| consecrated_by = Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor
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| birth_name = Alan Stephen Hopes
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1944|03|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Oxford, England
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| nationality = British
| religion = Roman Catholic
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| previous_post = {{unbulleted list|Titular Bishop of Cuncacestre (2003-2013)|Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster (2003-2013)}}
| education =
| alma_mater = King's College London
| motto = voluntas sua pax nostra
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| coat_of_arms = Coat of arms of Alan Stephen Hopes.svg
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| date of priestly ordination = 4 December 1995
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| consecrated by = Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
| co-consecrators = Arthur Roche, Kieran Conry
| date of consecration = 24 January 2003
| place of consecration = Westminster Cathedral
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| bishop 1 = Peter Collins
| consecration date 1 = 14 December 2022
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Alan Stephen Hopes (born 17 March 1944) is a British Roman Catholic prelate and former Anglican priest. From 2013 to 2022 he served as the Bishop of East Anglia. He was previously appointed as an auxiliary bishop of Westminster in 2003.
Early life and education
Hopes was born in Oxford, England, on 17 March 1944. He 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, graduating in 1966. He then attended Warminster Theological College, an Anglican theological college to train for ministry in the Church of England.{{cite news | title =Bishop Alan Hopes installed as new Bishop of East Anglia | newspaper =Independent Catholic News | location =UK | date =16 July 2013 | url =http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22962 | accessdate =11 November 2013}}
Anglican ministry
Hopes was ordained as an Anglican priest in 1968. As a priest in the Church of England he was Vicar of St Paul's Church, Tottenham from 1978 to 1994.
Roman Catholic ministry
=Priesthood=
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.{{Citation | title =Bishop Alan Hopes' Biography | publisher =Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales | date =11 June 2013
| url =http://www.catholicchurch.org.uk/Home/Featured/Pope-Francis-Appoints-New-Bishop-of-East-Anglia/Biography | accessdate =11 November 2013}}
In 2001, Hopes was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Westminster and in 2002 became a member of the Committee for Liturgy and Worship of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
=Episcopate=
File:Hopes Newton Broadhurst 2011-01-13.jpg
On 4 January 2003, Pope Benedict XVI appointed him titular bishop of Cuncacestre and an auxiliary bishop of Westminster,{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | language = it | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 04.01.2003 | url = https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2003/01/04/0006/00009.html | access-date = 20 January 2023 | date = 4 January 2003}}{{Citation| title =Bishop Alan Hopes | publisher =Archdiocese of Westminster | date =24 February 2006 | url =http://www.rcdow.org.uk/diocese/default.asp?library_ref=4&content_ref=613 | accessdate =7 November 2010}} making him one of the most senior members of Catholic clergy to have converted in the 1990s.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} On 24 January 2003 he received episcopal consecration,{{cite news | title =Pope appoints new Bishop of East Anglia | newspaper =Independent Catholic News | location =UK | date =11 June 2013 | url =http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=22732 | accessdate =11 November 2013 }} along with the now Archbishop Bernard Longley, in Westminster Cathedral from Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor. The principal co-consecrating bishops were Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds and Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}} As an auxiliary bishop, Hopes had particular pastoral oversight of the deaneries of West London.
In October 2010, Hopes was appointed episcopal delegate of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales for the implementation of the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus.{{cite news | title =Two more Anglican bishops to become Catholic | newspaper =Independent Catholic News | location =UK | date =8 November 2010 | url =http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory=17068 | accessdate =11 November 2013 }}
On 11 June 2013, Pope Francis appointed Hopes the fourth Bishop of East Anglia{{cite press release | publisher = Holy See Press Office | language = it | title = Rinunce e Nomine, 11.06.2013 | url =https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/it/bollettino/pubblico/2013/06/11/0373/00845.html | access-date = 20 January 2023 | date = 11 June 2013}} and he was installed on 16 July 2013 at St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich.
On 28 October 2016 he was appointed by Pope Francis a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.{{citation needed|date=January 2023}}
Hopes submitted his resignation as required upon turning 75 and Pope Francis accepted his resignation on 11 October 2022. He remained as apostolic administrator of the diocese until the installation of his successor on 14 December 2022.{{cite press release | title =Pope Appoints New Bishop of East Anglia | publisher =Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales | date =11 June 2003 | url =http://www.catholicchurch.org.uk/Home/Featured/Pope-Francis-Appoints-New-Bishop-of-East-Anglia/Bishop-of-East-Anglia | accessdate =11 November 2013 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20131111151918/http://www.catholicchurch.org.uk/Home/Featured/Pope-Francis-Appoints-New-Bishop-of-East-Anglia/Bishop-of-East-Anglia | archive-date =11 November 2013 | url-status =dead }}{{cite press release | title =New Bishop for East Anglia – Canon Peter Collins | author=|publisher =Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales | date =11 October 2022|location= London, England|agency=Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales | url =https://www.cbcew.org.uk/new-bishop-east-anglia/ | accessdate =14 October 2022 }}
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{{s-bef| before = Michael Charles Evans}}
{{s-ttl| title = Bishop of East Anglia| years = 2013 – 2022}}
{{s-aft| after = Peter Collins}}
{{s-bef| before = Owen Francis Swindlehurst}}
{{s-ttl| title = Titular Bishop of Cuncacestre| years = 2003 – 2013}}
{{s-aft| after = Robert Byrne}}
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Category:People educated at Enfield Grammar School
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Category:Alumni of St Boniface Missionary College, Warminster
Category:Members of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments