Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
As there are 42 dioceses of the Church of England, there are 42 bishops diocesan (including vacancies).Of the 42: both archbishops and the Bishops of London, of Durham and of Winchester, sit in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual ex officio; a further 21 sit there by seniority (of whom five had their seniority accelerated); the Bishop of Sodor and Man sits ex officio in the Legislative ...
Lord Archbishop of Canterbury: Justin Welby [a] 28 November 2011 [b] 2011 Lord Archbishop of York: Stephen Cottrell: 10 February 2014 [c] 2010 Lord Bishop of London: Sarah Mullally: 10 April 2018 2018 Lord Bishop of Durham: vacant: Lord Bishop of Winchester: Philip Mounstephen: 15 November 2023 2023 Lord Bishop of Bristol: Vivienne Faull: 2 ...
The House of Lords also includes up to 26 archbishops and bishops of the Church of England, known as Lords Spiritual. [11] [12] Since 2014, membership may be voluntarily relinquished or terminated upon expulsion. [11] As the upper house of Parliament, the House of Lords has many similar functions to the House of Commons. [13]
Successive retiring Archbishops of York after them have been created life peers:- Archbishops Blanch (1983), Habgood (1995) Hope (2005) and Sentamu (2021). Robin Eames, the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, was created a life peer in 1995 in recognition of his work for reconciliation and in the Northern Ireland peace process.
These lists include bishops and archbishops who before the English Reformation were in communion with the See of Rome. (It does not include bishops and archbishops of the restored Roman Catholic hierarchy established by the Holy See from 1850 or their predecessors, the vicar apostolics, all titular bishops, who were appointed from 1688.)
This is an alphabetical list of bishops and archbishops of the Anglican Communion, with links to articles about their dioceses or provinces where possible.. As of 2020 the Anglican Communion (as recognised by the Anglican Consultative Council) consists of 865 dioceses and 18 additional Ordinary jurisdictions (see list below) giving a total of 883 bishops; this total includes 77 archbishops (or ...
Roman Catholic archbishops in the United Kingdom by diocese (8 C) 0–9. 19th-century Roman Catholic archbishops in the United Kingdom ...
This is a directory of patriarchs, archbishops, and bishops across various Christian denominations. To find an individual who was a bishop, see the most relevant article linked below or Category:Bishops.