Alan Stephen Hopes (born 17 March 1944) is a British Roman Catholic prelate and former Anglican priest.

[2][3] In 2001, Hopes was appointed Vicar General of the Archdiocese of Westminster[2] and in 2002 became a member of the Committee for Liturgy and Worship of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales.

[citation needed] On 24 January 2003 he received episcopal consecration,[5][6] along with the now Archbishop Bernard Longley, in Westminster Cathedral from Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor.

In October 2010, Hopes was appointed episcopal delegate of the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales for the implementation of the apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus.

[7] On 11 June 2013, Pope Francis appointed Hopes the fourth Bishop of East Anglia[5][8][6] and he was installed on 16 July 2013 at St John the Baptist Cathedral, Norwich.