Talk:Lords Spiritual

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The 'numbers' section could do with some accuracy work. Ripon's creation was balanced out with the merging of Bristol and Gloucester: apparently (see Talk:historical development of Church of England dioceses) the original plan was to merge Bangor & St Asaph to balance out Manchester, but that got delayed. If there were 21 in 1836, there would only have been 22 when Manchester was created: so the 26 cap would have been planned in advance rather than a reaction to a growing plague of bishops. Morwen - Talk 13:28, 13 October 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't the Welsh bishops have taken up some of the remaining places? Timrollpickering 16:12, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Right. The cap was set at 26, which was the number of dioceses extant from 1550-1836, including four Welsh ones. Ta-da. Doops | talk 17:00, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Since 1550 the number of Lords Spiritual has been 26. Was the number of dioceses limited at the time of the English Reformation, for esoteric reasons (and therafter kept constant), since the number 26 is associated with the Divine Name in Judeo-Christian numerology? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.57.164 (talk) 20:59, 19 March 2008 (UTC) The establishment of 26 Lords Spiritual took place during the Anglican Refomation. The Anglican Reformation took place during th six year reign of Edward VI (1547-1553) when Thomas Cramner, the architect of the Prayer Book, was Archbishop of Cantebury. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.141.57.164 (talk) 21:10, 19 March 2008 (UTC)