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{{short description|Anglican religious governing assembly}}
{{For|House of Bishops of the Church of England|House of Bishops (Church of England)}}
The '''House of Bishops''' is the third House in a [[General Synod]] of some [[Anglican Church|Anglican churches]]<ref>E.g. see [http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/gensynod/houseofbishops/ House of Bishops, Church of England] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090520183517/http://www.cofe.anglican.org/about/gensynod/houseofbishops/ |date=2009-05-20 }}, [http://australia.anglican.org/governance.cfm?SID=19 General Synod, Anglican Church of Australia] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070829211403/http://australia.anglican.org/governance.cfm?SID=19 |date=2007-08-29 }}</ref> and the second house in the [[General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America]].<ref>[http://www.episcopalchurch.org/gc.htm General Convention, Episcopal Church in the United States of America] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090805054451/http://www.episcopalchurch.org/gc.htm |date=2009-08-05 }}</ref>

==Composition of Houses of Bishops==
The composition of a House of Bishops varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction.  Typically, they consist of [[archbishop]]s and/or [[primate (bishop)|Primate]]s, [[diocesan bishop]]s and sometimes [[suffragan bishop|suffragan]] and [[coadjutor bishop|coadjutor]] bishops (who may, in turn, be elected as a fixed number, as happens in the [[Church of England]]).  Houses of Bishops of [[Anglican Communion]] provinces are typically chaired by the Primate, Archbishop, or Presiding Bishop of the province, while in some [[ecclesiastical province|provincial subdivisions]] of a Communion province, a House of Bishops is chaired by a provincial [[Metropolitan bishop|metropolitan]].

==See also==
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* [[Diocesan synod]]
* [[General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada]]
* [[General Synod of the Church of England]]
** [[House of Bishops (Church of England)]]

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://hobd.org/ House of Bishops and Deputies email list] from the USA
*[http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/pastorals/ Pastoral letters from the House of Bishops of the American Episcopal Church] from [[Project Canterbury]]

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