As of February 2004, the spiritual peers, in order of seniority, are as follows:

with seniority ex officio

• The Archbishop of Canterbury - The Rt Hon Rowan Williams
• The Archbishop of York - The Rt Hon David Hope
• The Bishop of London - The Rt Hon 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 Bishop of Oxford - Richard Harries
• The Bishop of Salisbury - David Stancliffe
• The Bishop of Southwark - Thomas Butler
• The Bishop of Rochester - Michael Nazir-Ali
• The Bishop of Derby - Jonathan Bailey
• 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 - George Cassidy

See also

• House of Lords
• Religion in the United Kingdom