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The Right Reverend Alan Stephen Hopes was born in Oxford, England on 17th March 1944. Educated at Oxford High School until he moved to London in 1956, then attended Enfield Grammar School. In 1966 he took a degree in theology at King’s College London and then attended Warminster Theological College. In 1968 he was ordained for ministry in the Church of England and served as an Anglican priest until 1994 when he was received into the Catholic Church. Ordained a Catholic priest on 4th December 1995 and for three years 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 Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor appointed him Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Westminster. In 2002 he became a member of The Bishops’ Conference Committee for Liturgy and Worship. On 4th January 2003 he was appointed by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II as an Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster with the title of Titular Bishop of Cuncacestre (Chester-le-Street) successor to Saint Cuthbert. This appointment made him one of the most senior members of Catholic clergy to have converted in the 1990s. On 24th January 2003 he was ordained to the Episcopate in Westminster Cathedral by Cardinal Murphy-O’Connor. In October 2010 he was appointed as Episcopal Delegate of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales for the implementation of the Apostolic Constitution Anglicanorum coetibus promulgated by Pope Benedict XVI to enable those members of the Church of England seeking full communion with the Catholic Church to be received and maintain many of their liturgical practices. On 11th June 2013, Pope Francis appointed him as the 4th Bishop of East Anglia and he was installed on 16th July 2013 at St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich. In November 2014 Bishop Hopes was made a Knight Commander with Star of The Equestrian Order of The Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.

The Right Reverend Michael Charles Evans was ordained as a priest for the Archdiocese of Southwark on 22 June 1975. He was an Assistant Priest prior to studying for a Master of Theology degree at the University of London for four years (1975–1979). He returned to his seminary, St John’s Wonersh, for eight years as lecturer in Doctrine. From 1995 to 2003 he served as Parish Priest at St Augustine’s Church in Tunbridge Wells before being appointed as the third Bishop of East Anglia on 14 February 2003 by Pope (now Saint) John Paul II. Bishop Evans received Episcopal consecration at the Cathedral Church of St John the Baptist, Norwich on 19 March 2003.

An energetic and prolific writer and spent much of his time trying to organise and consolidate the Diocese with a series of Diocesan Policies and long-range plans for parish mergers in response to a decline in the number of priests and vocations. In November 2006 he was diagnosed with prostate cancer but decided to stay in post until his death on 11th July 2011 at the age of fifty-nine.

1943: born
1972: Ordained
1995-2001: Bishop of East Anglia
2001-2010: Cardiff
2010-2019: Archbishop of Southwark
2019: retired
2020: died

Peter David Smith was born on 21 October 1943 in Battersea, London, England. He was educated at Clapham College, Exeter University, St. John's Seminary in Wonersh and the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome.
Obituary: RDCEA Yearbook 2021 Pg 72

The Right Reverend Alan Charles Clark was born of convert parents in Bickley, Kent on 9th August 1919. When young he contracted polio and was taken to Lourdes. He made a recovery and set his sights on the priesthood. He studied at the Venerable English College in Rome and was ordained to the Priesthood for the Archdiocese of Southwark on 11 February 1945 (The Feast of Our Lady of Lourdes). He was involved in the Second Vatican Council as a peritus and was later to become the Vice-Rector of his old seminary in Rome. From there he would return to his Diocese of Southwark where he became Parish Priest of Our Lady Help of Christian, Blackheath, Kent before being selected as the new Auxiliary Bishop of Northampton with the Titular See of Elmham.

Bishop Clark was named the Co-chairman of ARCIC (Anglican/Roman Catholic International Commission). As the first bishop of the new diocese, he had to set up all the necessary instruments and commissions for the diocese. The diocesan offices and diocesan tribunal were at The White House in Poringland near Norwich. This estate had been given to the Diocese of Northampton by the Birkbeck Family. It was the residence of the retired Bishop of Northampton, The Rt Revd Leo Parker.

Bishop Clark continued in office until his seventy-fifth birthday made it mandatory for him to tender his resignation to the Holy See in 1994. This was accepted on 21st March, 1995 and at that point he became Bishop Emeritus. He retired to a house built in the grounds and died in the 16th July, 2002 at the age of eighty-two. He was buried near the Slipper Chapel in Walsingham, Norfolk.

1951: born
1976: ordained

1995: Ordained
2014: PP St Felix, Felixstowe

1988: Written to as National Secretary of Walsingham Association

1936: born
1967-70: Northampton Bishop's Secretary
1970- : Diocesan Treasurer
1975-1979: PP Towcester
1979: PP at St Theresa's, Princes Risborough
1988-2006: Episcopal Vicar for Finance and Development
29 May 2011: died at High Wycombe Hospital.

Chaplain at the University of East Anglia; prison chaplain; A former academic at Oxford University
2018: Ordained
2021: Priest-in-Charge, Our Lady of the Annunciation, Poringland

1979 to 1983: Cardinal Vaughan Memorial School then studying Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge
1990: ordained
?-2008: Administrator of Westminster Cathedral
2009-2013: Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity
2013-?: Chaplain at Fisher House (the University of Cambridge's chaplaincy for Catholic students)
2022: died

He was influential in relations between the Catholic and Anglican Churches during the consolidation of plans to create the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham. A 2012 Tablet article described him as a "clear preacher with a good sense of humour".
Langham was a prolific writer and has contributed to The Tablet, amongst other publications. In 2014, he wrote an article entitled, "God knows where the women bishops vote leaves Anglican-Catholic relations". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Langham (accessed 26-7-2018)
Obituary: RCDEA 2022 Yearbook page 70-71 (accessed 6-1-2024)