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===House of Lords===
{{See also|House of Lords}}
The upper house of the [[Parliament of the United Kingdom]] is the [[House of Lords]], which is an abbreviation of the full title, "The Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled". The [[Lords Temporal]] are the people who are entitled to receive [[Hereditary peer#Writs of summons|writs of summons]] to attend the House of Lords in right of a peerage. The [[Lords Spiritual]] are the Archbishops of  [[Archdiocese of Canterbury|Canterbury]] and  [[Archdiocese of York|York]], the Bishops of  [[Diocese of London|London]],  [[Diocese of Winchester|Winchester]] and  [[Diocese of Durham|Durham]], and the twenty-one longest-serving bishops of the [[Church of England]] from among the other bishops (plus some female bishops of shorter service in consequence of the [[Lords Spiritual (Women) Act 2015]]), who are all entitled to receive writs of summons in right of their bishoprics or archbishoprics.

The Lords Temporal greatly outnumber the Lords Spiritual, there being nearly 800 of the former and only 26 of the latter. As of December 2016, 92 Lords Temporal sit in the House in right of hereditary peerages (that being the maximum number allowed under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]]) and 19 sit in right of judicial life peerages under the [[Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876]]. The rest are life peers under the [[Life Peerages Act 1958]].