Alan Hopes

Alan Stephen Hopes, is a Roman Catholic Bishop in Great Britain. He currently serves as Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster and titular Bishop of "Cuncacestre". He was born in Oxford, England on 14 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 1992 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.

Aged fifty eight years of age he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster on the 4 January 2003, 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 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.