Steven J. Lopes

Steven Joseph Lopes (; born April 22, 1975) is an American Catholic prelate who serves as Bishop of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter, a Catholic community that celebrates the Anglican Use in North America. He has also been the apostolic administrator of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross in Australia since May 11, 2026.

Early life and education A native of Fremont, California, Lopes was born on April 22, 1975, the only child of José de Oliveira Lopes and Barbara Jane Lopes. His father was from Portugal and his mother from Poland. He was educated at Catholic schools in California: St. Pius School in Redwood City, St. Edward's School in Newark, and Moreau Catholic High School in Hayward.

Lopes studied at the St. Ignatius Institute at the University of San Francisco, and also pursued studies at the University of Innsbruck in Austria. His philosophical studies and preparation for the priesthood took place at St. Patrick's Seminary in Menlo Park, California, before he was assigned to study theology in Rome. There he obtained a licentiate at the Pontifical Gregorian University while living at the Pontifical North American College. He was ordained a priest on June 23, 2001, for the Archdiocese of San Francisco by William Levada during a service at Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, San Francisco. He served in two parishes in California as an associate pastor; St. Patrick's Catholic Church, San Francisco, and St. Anselm Catholic Church in Ross, California. On July 10, 2010, he was appointed a Chaplain of His Holiness and therefore was then addressed as "Monsignor."

On February 2, 2016, Lopes was consecrated a bishop in Houston and took canonical possession of the ordinariate. His principal consecrator was Cardinal Gerhard Ludwig Müller, with Cardinal William Levada and Cardinal Donald Wuerl as co-consecrators. In June 2024, he was a principal co-consecrator of David Waller, the first bishop-ordinary of the UK's Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham.

On May 11, 2026, Pope Leo XIV named Lopes as apostolic administrator of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross, the ordinariate serving former Anglicans in Australia and Asia.