An academic who has studied the role of the Bishop in the Manx parliament has stepped into the debate over whether the post should remain.
On Tynwald Day last week, a member of the public presented a petition for redress, calling for the Lord Bishop to be removed from Legislative Council.
The bishop has a vote in Tynwald but is not elected.
Other Council members have no public mandate either, but are voted in by the Keys.
Professor Peter Edge of Oxford Brookes University published a lengthy study into the Bishop of Sodor and Man's role in Tynwald in 2001.
The study reached no conclusion as to whether it was a good or bad thing, but weighed the arguments.
Professor Edge says critics raise two main concerns:Clip 1
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