On 17th July 2025, the Right Reverend Mark Tanner, the Bishop of Chester, was introduced to the House of Lords and took his seat on the Bishops’ Benches as a Lord Spiritual:
Hansard records that:
Mark Simon Austin, Lord Bishop of Chester, was introduced and took the oath, supported by the Bishop of Winchester and the Bishop of Lincoln, and signed an undertaking to abide by the Code of Conduct.
The Church of England in Parliament 