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Line 2: {{Use British English\|date = September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates\|date=May 2020}} [[File:The Archbishop of Canterbury (51111275839).jpg\|thumb\|upright=1.4\|[[Justin Welby]] (Former Archbishop of Canterbury) and [[Rachel Treweek]] (Bishop of Gloucester) in the House of Lords in 2021]] {{PoliticsUK}} The '''Lords Spiritual''' are the [[bishop]]s of the [[Church of England]] who sit in the [[House of Lords]] of the United Kingdom. Up to 26 of the 42 [[diocesan bishop]]s and [[archbishop]]s 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 [[Presbyterianism\|Presbyterian]], and the [[Church in Wales\|Anglican churches in Wales]] and [[Church of Ireland\|in Northern Ireland]], which are no longer [[Established Church\|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. Line 57: ==Other religious figures as Lords Temporal== Other Christian clergy have been appointed to the House of Lords:- * Anglican priests [[Timothy Beaumont\|Lord Beaumont of Whitley]] (1967) and [[Peter Pilkington, Baron Pilkington of Oxenford\|Lord Pilkington of Oxenford]] (1995).<!-- It was announced in late 2024 that [[Nigel Biggar]] and [[Russell Rook]] will be created life peers--> * [[Church of Scotland]] minister and [[Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland\|Moderator of the General Assembly]] [[George MacLeod\|Lord MacLeod of Fuinary]] (1967) * [[Methodist Church of Great Britain\|Methodist]] ministers [[Donald Soper\|Lord Soper]] (1965), [[Kathleen Richardson, Baroness Richardson of Calow\|Baroness Richardson of Calow]] (1998) and [[Leslie Griffiths\| Lord Griffiths of Burry Port]] (2004), each of whom served as [[ President of the Methodist Conference]]. * [[Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster]] ministers [[Ian Paisley\|Lord Bannside]] (2010) and [[William McCrea, Baron McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown\|Lord McCrea of Magherafelt and Cookstown]] (2018). There have been no Roman Catholic clergy appointed since the Reformation,. ~~though~~However, it was rumoured that [[Basil Cardinal Hume]], the [[Archbishop of Westminster]], and his successor, [[Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor]], were offered peerages by [[James Callaghan]], Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair respectively, but declined. [[Cardinal (Catholic Church)\|Cardinal]] Hume later accepted the [[Order of Merit (Commonwealth)\|Order of Merit]], a personal appointment of the Queen, shortly before his death. Cardinal Murphy O'Connor said he had his maiden speech ready, but under [[Canon (canon law)\|Canon]] 285 of the [[1983 Code of Canon Law\|1983 ''Code of Canon Law'']], ordained Catholic clergy of the [[Latin Church]] (by far the largest Catholic denomination in Britain) [[Catholic priests in public office\|are discouraged]] from holding public office of any state other than the [[Holy See]], and [[secular clergy\|secular priests]] and bishops are completely prohibited from "public offices which entail a participation in the exercise of civil power".<ref>{{cite web \|title=~~THE~~The ~~OBLIGATIONS~~Obligations ~~AND~~and ~~RIGHTS~~Rights OFof ~~CLERICS~~Clerics \|url=https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/_PY.HTM \|work=Code of Canon Law - IntraText \|publisher=[[Libreria Editrice Vaticana]]}}</ref> Jewish [[rabbis]] have also been appointed to the House of Lords:- [[List of chief rabbis of the United Hebrew Congregations\|Chief Rabbis of the United Hebrew Congregations]] [[Immanuel Jakobovits\|Lord Jakobovits]] (1988) and [[Jonathan Sacks, Baron Sacks\|Lord Sacks]] (2009)<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.chiefrabbi.org/ReadContent1849.aspx \|title=Biography of the Chief Rabbi \|publisher=Office of the Chief Rabbi \|location=London, United Kingdom \|access-date=16 November 2009 \|url-status=dead \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091001042614/http://www.chiefrabbi.org/ReadContent1849.aspx \|archive-date=1 October 2009 }}</ref> [[Movement for Reform Judaism\|Reform]] rabbi [[Julia Neuberger\|Baroness Neuberger]] (2004) ==Reforms== Line 111: ==External links== * {{Cite Americana\|wstitle=Lords Spiritual \|short=x}} *[https://churchinparliament.org/ Church in Parliament, the official website of the Lords Spiritual] {{Current Lords Spiritual\|state=expanded}} {{UK legislatures\|state=autocollapse}}