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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.
See also
References