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Until 2015, the 21 longest-serving among the remaining diocesan bishops were eligible to sit in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual. Since women became eligible as bishops in 2015, female diocesan bishops take precedence over male ones whenever a new vacancy in the Lords arises, in accordance with the Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015 (originally in force until 17 May 2025, [11] [12] extended ...
Lord Bishop of Guildford: Andrew Watson: 16 December 2021 2014 Lord Bishop of Hereford: Richard Jackson: 15 November 2023 2020 Lord Bishop of Leeds: Nick Baines: 3 December 2014 2011 Lord Bishop of Leicester: Martyn Snow: 6 October 2022 2013 Lord Bishop of Lichfield: Michael Ipgrave: 25 October 2022 2016 Lord Bishop of Lincoln: Stephen Conway ...
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 article lists Diocesan Bishops and Archbishops in the Church of England, the Church in Wales, the Scottish Episcopal Church and the Church of Ireland.
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 ...
The total of 12 bishops would include the five "named Lords Spiritual" (the Archbishops of Canterbury and York and the Bishops of Durham, London and Winchester, entitled as they are to sit ex officio) plus seven other "ordinary Lords Spiritual" (diocesan bishops chosen by the church itself through whatever device it deems appropriate). The ...
British expatriate bishops (1 C, 17 P) R. British Roman Catholic bishops (5 C) W. Welsh bishops (11 C, 4 P)
Since 1976, when a diocesan bishop (including those of the 42 English dioceses and the Bishop of Sodor and Man but not the Bishop in Europe) [1] dies, retires or moves on and leaves a diocesan bishopric vacant, the process of replacing them involves several stages. The first of these involves the diocesan Vacancy-in-See Committee, composed of: