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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
Abbots of monasteries may be styled as The Right Reverend. [9] Bishops are styled as The Right Reverend or His Lordship. [10] Archbishops and primates, including the Archbishop of Canterbury, and (for historical reasons) the Bishop of Meath and Kildare [11] [dead link ] are styled as The Most Reverend, and addressed as Your Grace.
Abbreviations for Reverend include Rev., Revd (or Rev d), and Rev'd. The Reverend is traditionally used as an adjectival form with first names (or initials) and surname, e.g. "the Reverend John Smith" or "the Reverend J. F. Smith"; if the first names (or initials) are unknown, the correct form is "The Reverend Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Smith". [3]
Very Reverend, Very Rev., Reverend Monsignor, Rev. Msgr. A presbyter granted vicarious authority from a diocesan bishop for the entire diocese, as a kind of "vice bishop" for administrative purposes. Often also acts as moderator of the curia / chief of staff. Chorbishop: A chorbishop is an official of a diocese in some Eastern Christian churches.
Mariann Edgar Budde (born December 10, 1959 [1]) is an Episcopal prelate who has served as Bishop of Washington since 2011.. Budde was consecrated as the ninth Bishop of Washington in the Washington National Cathedral on November 12, 2011. [2]
Richard Douglas Harries, Baron Harries of Pentregarth, FRSL FLSW (born 2 June 1936) is a retired bishop of the Church of England and former British Army officer. He was the Bishop of Oxford from 1987 to 2006.
Jane Holmes Dixon (born Jane Hart Holmes; July 24, 1937 – December 25, 2012) was an American bishop of the Episcopal Church.She was a suffragan bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and served as Bishop of Washington pro tempore from 2001 to June 2002. [1]
Guli Dehqani-Tafti was born in Isfahan, Iran, in 1966. [1] [2] Her father Hassan Dehqani-Tafti (1920–2008) was the Anglican Bishop in Iran from 1961 until his retirement in 1990, serving also as President Bishop of the Episcopal Church in Jerusalem and the Middle East, 1976–1986.