lords spiritual

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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

Lord Halifax, Randolph Churchill and such formidable lords spiritual as the Archbishops of Canterbury and York.

From Time Magazine Archive

The House of Lords is composed of lords spiritual and lords temporal.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various

This was denominated the great council, being the lords spiritual and temporal, with the king's ordinary council annexed to them, as a council within a council.

From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Hallam, Henry

Edward issued a writ to the then Lord Justice, D'Ufford, desiring him to assemble the lords spiritual and temporal of the "land of Ireland," to deliberate on the subject.

From An Illustrated History of Ireland from AD 400 to 1800 by Cusack, Mary Frances