Rupert William Noel Hoare (born 3 March 1940[1]) is a former dean of Liverpool and Anglican area bishop of Dudley.
Upon completing his secondary education, he went to Trinity College, Oxford where he studied theology.
He graduated in 1961 with a First Class Honours and spend the following year in Berlin on a scholarship from Coventry Cathedral.
In 1964, he achieved another First Class Honours in Part III of the Cambridge Tripos and completed his PhD thesis on the relationship between theology and psychiatry in 1973.
He was area Bishop of Dudley[4] in the Diocese of Worcester between 1993 and 2000 before moving to become the dean of Liverpool in 1999.