Vatican City, 11 June 2013 (VIS) – Today, the Holy Father appointed Bishop Alan Stephen Hopes as bishop of East Anglia (area 12,570, population 2,855,000, Catholics 99,200, priests 118, permanent deacons 36, religious 131), England. Bishop Hopes, previously auxiliary of Westminster, England, and titular of Cuncacestre, serves as chairman of the Liturgy Committee on the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.Bishop Hopes is a former Anglican, and was instrumental in helping implement Anglicanorum coetibus in England. Our congratulations to him. Multos Annos!
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It's many decades since I visited the Episcopalian Church of Old S Paul's
in Edinburgh ... but my recollection is of learning that, before its
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This is great news to see such a great friend and ally of the Ordinariates given his own see - and another step toward the reform of the English episcopate. Ad multos annos, Your Excellency.
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