John Franklin Meldon Hine was born in Royal Tunbridge Wells, part of the Southwark Archdiocese, on 26 July 1938.
[1] After studying at the Venerable English College, Rome, Hine was ordained as a Catholic priest on 28 October 1962 for the Archdiocese of Southwark.
He served as Vicar General and Chancellor of the Archdiocese before his elevation to the episcopate, and was a Canon of the Cathedral of St George, Southwark and a Monsignor.
He received episcopal ordination from Archbishop Bowen on 27 February 2001, with Bishops Christopher Budd and Crispian Hollis as co consecrators, and assigned the titular see of Beverley.
In January 2014 he relinquished his geographical responsibilities for the Kent area of the Archdiocese of Southwark, and was appointed parish priest of St Andrew's, Tenterden.