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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.

Appointed bishop on 5 February 1908 and consecrated on 25 February 1908. Translated to the Archbishopric of Liverpool on 13 June 1921. Died 1928 aged 68.

Born: Nice, France on 5 February 1868
Parents: Valentine Dudley Henry Cary Elwes & (second) wife Alice Geraldine née Ward
Ordained: 30 May 1896
Bishop: Diocese of Northampton from 21 November 1921 to 1 May 1932; consecration 15 December 1921 [principal consecrator was Cardinal Francis Bourne, Archbishop of Westminster, and the principal co-consecrators were Bishop Arthur Doubleday of Brentwood and Bishop Thomas Dunn of Nottingham]
Died: 1 May 1932, aged 64,
Buried: Great Billing, Northamptonshire

Born in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire 14 December 1873
Ordained 30 June 1901.
Bishop of the Diocese of Northampton appointment on 16 June 1933. Consecration to the Episcopateon 25 July 1933. The principal consecrator was Thomas Williams, Archbishop of Birmingham, and the principal co-consecrators were John McNulty, Bishop of Nottingham, and Joseph Butt, Auxiliary Bishop of Westminster.

He died in office on 14 November 1939, aged 65, and was buried at Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire.

Bishop: Appointed on 14 December 1940 and consecrated on 11 February 1941. Resigned on 17 January 1967.
Titular Bishop of Magarmel. Resigned the titular see on 7 December 1970.
Died on 25 March 1975.

Charles Alexander Grant was born in Cambridge on 25 October 1906. Ordained on 16 June 1935. He was a parish priest in Ely from 1943-1945. On 6 February 1961, he was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Northampton and Titular Bishop of Alinda by Pope John XXIII. Episcopal consecration on 25 April 1962. He was appointed the Bishop of the Diocese of Northampton by the Holy See on 14 March 1967. He retired on 16 February 1982 as Bishop Emeritus of Northampton. He died on 24 April 1989 and was buried at Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire.

Arthur George Riddell was born in Paris in 1836. On 24 September 1858, aged 22, he was ordained a priest. On 27 April 1880, aged 43, he was appointed as Bishop of Northampton and installed two months later. He died in 1907, aged 71. He had been a priest for 49 years and a bishop for 27 years.

1922: writing to Bishop about a parishioner in contact with Patriarchal Court in Jerusalem

1888 ordained. From 1900 to 1902 he was Vice-Rector and from 1902 to 1906 and from 1913 Rector of the Austrian Hospice to the Holy Family in the Old City of Jerusalem. From 1906 to 1913 he was Professor of Old Testament Bible Studies at the Diocesan School Linz . In 1917 he was invested in the Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.

Pope Pius X appointed him Titular Bishop of Nisyrus on 26 February 1929 and auxiliary bishop and Vicar General in the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem (League of Nations Mandate for Palestine). The episcopal consecration was on 7 April 1929. Fellinger performed the first international conference of the Order of Knights in September 1932 in Jerusalem. 1st January 1933, Patriarch Luigi Barlassina appointed him as a regent for Austria of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem.