Justin Welby (Archbishop of Canterbury) and Rachel Treweek (Bishop of Gloucester) in the House of Lords in 2021
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The Lords Spiritual are the bishops of the Church of England who sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Up to 26 of the 42 diocesan bishops and archbishops of the Church of England serve as Lords Spiritual (not including retired bishops who sit by right of a peerage). The Church of Scotland, which is Presbyterian, and the Anglican churches in Wales and in Northern Ireland, which are no longer established churches, are not represented. The Lords Spiritual are distinct from the Lords Temporal, their secular counterparts who also sit in the House of Lords.
The LordsSpiritual are the bishops of the Church of England who sit in the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Up to 26 of the 42 diocesan bishops and...
any longer. The House of Lords also includes up to 26 archbishops and bishops of the Church of England, known as LordsSpiritual. Since 2014, membership...
Man). Under the LordsSpiritual (Women) Act 2015, female bishops take precedence over men until May 2025 to become new LordsSpiritual for the 21 seats...
prime minister, plus up to 92 hereditary peers. The less numerous LordsSpiritual consist of up to 26 bishops of the Church of England. Before the establishment...
members from the LordsSpiritual, who sit in the House as a consequence of being bishops in the Church of England. Membership in the Lords Temporal was once...
spokesperson bishops for the Church of England and/or as LordsSpiritual in the House of Lords. As there are 42 dioceses of the Church of England, there...
with regard to poverty LordsSpiritual, the clergy of the established Church of England who serve in the House of LordsSpiritual Baptists, a syncretic...
right to sit in the House of Lords subject to keeping to certain constitutional conventions incumbent on LordsSpiritual requiring them to speak in an...
the House of Lords, of whom 25 were senior Church of England bishops, whose representation in the House is governed by the LordsSpiritual (Women) Act...
House. For the first time, the Lords Temporal were more numerous than the LordsSpiritual. Currently, the LordsSpiritual consist of the Archbishops of...
favour of a unicameral Parliament. The House of Lords is composed of two major groups: the LordsSpiritual (who in modern times are the archbishops and some...
occasions: Parliament robes, worn on ceremonial occasions in the House of Lords, and Coronation robes, worn at coronations of monarchs. Peers wear a robe...
Traci Lords (born 1968), American actress House of Lords, upper house of the British parliament LordsSpiritual, clergymen of the House of LordsLords Temporal...
hereditary peers were able to sit in the Lords from 1963. Female Church of England bishops have been sitting as LordsSpiritual since 2015, although abbesses had...
the reformed House of Lords. The House would have to be composed of elected members, appointed members, bishops (LordsSpiritual), as well as up to eight...
of Lords, which is an abbreviation of the full title, "The Right Honourable the LordsSpiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled". The Lords Temporal...
all." (The three estates of the parliament of Britain were: the LordsSpiritual, the Lords Temporal and the Commons.) If Burke made the statement Carlyle...
hereditary peers) may sit in the House of Lords as the Lords Temporal. They sit alongside the LordsSpiritual, who are not peers, but bishops of the Church...
estate lines, being composed of the "LordsSpiritual and Temporal, and Commons". The tradition where the LordsSpiritual and Temporal sat separately from...
1963) is an English Anglican bishop who sits in the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual. Since June 2015, she has served as Bishop of Gloucester, the...
British House of Lords (apart from the 26 LordsSpiritual who are expected to retire at the age of 70) have lifetime tenure (although Lords can choose to...
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Plaid Cymru (2) Lord Speaker (1) Non-affiliated (37) Independents (2) LordsSpiritual (25) Scottish Parliament (129) Scottish National Party (64) Scottish...
bishops who sit ex officio among the 26 LordsSpiritual in the House of Lords. Mounstephen joined the House of Lords on 15 November 2023. He made his maiden...
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