List of spiritual peers

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As of August 2006, the spiritual peers, in order of seniority, are as follows:

with seniority ex officio

• The Archbishop of Canterbury - Rowan Williams
• The Archbishop of York - John Sentamu (has not yet taken his seat)
• The Bishop of London - Richard Chartres
• The Bishop of Durham - Nicholas Thomas Wright
• The Bishop of Winchester - Michael Scott-Joynt

with seniority determined by length of service as a Church of England diocesan bishop; the most junior at present (the Bishop of Ripon and Leeds) has served since 2000.

• The Bishop of Salisbury - David Stancliffe
• The Bishop of Southwark - Thomas Butler
• The Bishop of Rochester - Michael Nazir-Ali
• The Bishop of Portsmouth - Kenneth Stevenson
• The Bishop of St Albans - Christopher Herbert
• The Bishop of Peterborough - Ian Cundy
• The Bishop of Chester - Peter Forster
• The Bishop of St Edmundsbury and Ipswich - Richard Lewis
• The Bishop of Truro - William Ind
• The Bishop of Worcester - Peter Selby
• The Bishop of Manchester - Nigel McCullogh
• The Bishop of Newcastle - John Martin Wharton
• The Bishop of Sheffield - John Nicholls
• The Bishop of Coventry - Colin Bennets
• The Bishop of Liverpool - James Jones
• The Bishop of Leicester - Timothy Stevens
• The Bishop of Chelmsford - John Gladwin
• The Bishop of Southwell and Nottingham - George Cassidy
• The Bishop of Norwich - Graham James
• The Bishop of Exeter - Michael Langrish
• The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds - John Packer

[edit] See also

• Members of the House of Lords
• Religion in the United Kingdom

[edit] External links

• Current list of Lords Spiritual from the Lords Information Office