lords spiritual
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Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty-six bishops of the Church of England sit as lords spiritual, and 154 life peers have been created under the 1958 act.
From Time Magazine Archive
The lords spiritual are representative life peers—they are the senior bishops, and they are appointed to represent a corporation—the Established Church.
From Mankind in the Making by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
All being at last assembled, the king, the lords spiritual and temporal and the Commons, meet together in the "Painted Chamber."
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
The lords spiritual and temporal held one of their important meetings, during the interregnum, at Guildhall, and summoned to it the chief magistrate and aldermen.
From London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. by Unknown
