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
It acknowledged the obedience of Ireland to England, but 'nevertheless, it was separate from it and from all its laws and statutes except such as were accepted by the lords spiritual and temporal.'
From The Viceroys of Ireland by O'Mahony, Charles
As this body is now constituted, the lords spiritual are two archbishops, twenty-four bishops, and four Irish representative prelates.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863 by Various
It is worth noting that two of the lords spiritual, Dr. Cosin, Bishop of Durham, and Dr. Wilkins, Bishop of Chester, voted in favour of the bill.
From Royalty Restored by Molloy, J. Fitzgerald (Joseph Fitzgerald)
