Alan Hopes

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The Right Reverend  Alan Hopes
Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster
Alan Hopes in 2011
Archdiocese	Westminster
Province	Westminster
Metropolis	Westminster
Appointed	4 January 2003
Enthroned	24 January 2003
Other posts	Titular Bishop of Cuncacestre
Orders
Ordination	4 December 1995
Consecration	24 January 2003 by Cormac Murphy-O'Connor
Personal details
Birth name	Alan Stephen Hopes
Born	(1944-03-14) 14 March 1944 (age 68) Oxford, England
Nationality	British
Denomination	Roman Catholic

Alan Stephen Hopes, is a Roman Catholic Bishop in Great Britain.^[1] He currently serves as an Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and titular Bishop of Cuncacestre. He 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, taking his degree in 1966. He then attended Warminster Theological College and was ordained priest in the Church of England in 1968.

He served as a priest in the Church of England until 1994 when he converted to the Roman Catholic Church. He was ordained a priest in the Catholic Church 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.

In 2001 he was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Westminster, and in 2002 became a member of Bishops' Conference Committee for Liturgy and Worship.

On 4 January 2003, at the age of 58, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster,^[2] making him one of the most senior members of Catholic Clergy to have converted in the 1990s. On 24 January 2003 he received Episcopal Ordination, along with the now Archbishop Bernard Longley, in Westminster Cathedral from Cormac Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor. The principal co-consecrating bishops were Bishop Arthur Roche of Leeds and Bishop Kieran Conry of Arundel and Brighton.

In October 2010 Bishop Hopes was appointed as Episcopal Delegate of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England & Wales for the implementation of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus.

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