Right Reverend

Right Reverend

The Right Reverend (abbreviations: The Rt Revd; The Rt Rev'd; The Rt Rev.) is a style applied to certain religious figures.

*In the Anglican tradition and the Roman Catholic Church in Great Britain it applies to all bishops with "The Most Reverend" being reserved for archbishops (elsewhere, all Roman Catholic bishops are styled as "The Most Reverend").

*In some churches with a Presbyterian heritage it applies to the current Moderator of the General Assembly, such as
**the current Moderator of the United Church of Canada
**the current Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland
**the current Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

*In the Roman Catholic Church it applies to abbots of monasteries in the Latin Rite and archimandrites in the Eastern Rites. Monsignors of the ranks of apostolic protonotary and domestic prelate were formerly styled "The Right Reverend" but the currently correct style for them is "The Reverend Monsignor".

*As in the Anglican tradition, the style is also applied to bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Other Methodist denominations, including the United Methodist Church, do not use the style.

ee also

*The Reverend


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