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BISHOPRICS ACT 1878

BISHOPRICS ACT 1878 - LONG TITLE

An Act to provide for the foundation of four new Bishoprics in
England.
[16th August 1878]
Short title.

BISHOPRICS ACT 1878 - SECT 1

1. This Act may be cited as the Bishoprics Act, 1878.

BISHOPRICS ACT 1878 - SECT 5
The number of bishops sitting in Parliament not to be increased.

5. The number of Lords Spiritual sitting and voting as Lords of
Parliament shall not be increased by the foundation of a new
bishopric in pursuance of this Act; and whenever there is a vacancy
among such Lords Spiritual by the avoidance of any of the sees of
Canterbury, York, London, Durham, or Winchester, such vacancy shall
be supplied by the issue of a writ of summons to the bishop
acceding to the see so avoided; and if such vacancy is caused by
the avoidance of any see other than one of the five sees
aforesaid, such vacancy shall be supplied by the issue of a writ
of summons to that bishop of a see in England who having been
longest bishop of a see in England has not previously become
entitled to such writ:

Provided, that where a bishop is translated from one see to
another, and was at the date of his translation actually sitting as
a Lord of Parliament, he shall not thereupon lose his right to
receive a writ of summons to Parliament.