About David Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes
David Michael Hope, Baron Hope of Thornes, is a 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 when he was a bishop. He retired from the Lords in April 2015. He was closeted about his sexuality for much of his ministry and even after a press conference when he outed himself, changed that story afterwards. He then entered St Stephen's House, Oxford to train for ordination, and also undertook postgraduate study at Linacre College, Oxford, being awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1965.
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