 In 1908 Lang was nominated as Archbishop of York , despite his relatively junior status as a suffragan rather than a diocesan bishop . His religious stance was broadly Anglo @-@ Catholic , tempered by the liberal Anglo @-@ Catholicism advocated in the Lux Mundi essays . He consequently entered the House of Lords as a Lord Spiritual and caused consternation in traditionalist circles by speaking and voting against the Lords ' proposal to reject David Lloyd George 's 1909 " People 's Budget " . This radicalism was not , however , maintained in later years . At the start of the First World War , Lang was heavily criticised for a speech in which he spoke sympathetically of the German Emperor . This troubled him greatly and may have contributed to the rapid ageing which affected his appearance during the war years . After the war he began to promote church unity and at the 1920 Lambeth Conference was responsible for the Church 's Appeal to All Christian People . As Archbishop of York he supported controversial proposals for the revision of the Book of Common Prayer but , after acceding to Canterbury , he took no practical steps to resolve this issue . 
