David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, KCVO, PCis a British life peer and retired Anglican bishop. He was the Bishop of Wakefield between 1985 and 1991, and the Bishop of London between 1991 and 1995. From 1995 to 2005, he was the Archbishop of York in the Church of England. In March 2005, he was made a life peer and therefore a member of the House of Lords; he had already sat in the house as a Lord Spiritual...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth14 April 1940
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I have always hoped that it might be possible to conclude my ministry as I had begun it, as a parish priest, and this I believe to be the call of God.
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The question of whether women should be made bishops once they had been ordained is absolutely pivotal. It seems to me absolute nonsense for women to be ordained to the priesthood but not to the episcopacy because the two are inextricably linked.
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There is a time to speak and a time to listen, and sometimes people need to shut up.