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Religious honorific style
The Right Reverend (abbreviated as The Rt Rev'd or The Rt Rev. ) is an
honorific
style given to certain
religious figures and members of a
clergy .
Overview
In the
Anglican Communion
[1]
[2] and the
Catholic Church in Great Britain , it applies to
bishops , except that
The Most Reverend is used for
archbishops (elsewhere, all
Catholic bishops are styled as The Most Reverend ).
[1]
In some churches with a
Presbyterian heritage, it applies to the current
Moderator of the General Assembly , such as
In the
Catholic Church , it applies to
abbots of
monasteries in the
Latin Church and
archimandrites in the
Eastern Catholic Churches .
Monsignors of the ranks of
protonotary apostolic and domestic prelate were formerly styled The Right Reverend Monsignor , but the currently correct style for them is The Reverend Monsignor .
In the
Eastern Orthodox tradition,
bishops and
titular bishops are styled "The Right Reverend".
[3]
In
Methodism , as in the
Anglican tradition, the style is also applied to bishops of the
African Methodist Episcopal Church and the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church . Other
Methodist denominations , including the
United Methodist Church , only use this to refer to
district superintendents , not their bishops.
It is used as a title for bishops in the
Church of God in Christ , a
Holiness –
Pentecostal Christian denomination.
In the
General Church of the New Jerusalem the title is used for all bishops who have been ordained into the third or ecclesiastical degree of the priesthood.
See also
References