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The custom for address depends on personal custom and custom in the abbey. Abbess, Prioress, or other superior of a religious order of women or a province thereof: The Reverend Mother (Full Name), (any religious order's postnominals); Mother (Given Name). The title of women religious superiors varies greatly, and the custom of a specific order ...
Salutation in letter Oral address Archbishop: The Most Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Archbishop of Canterbury/York: Dear Archbishop: Your Grace or Archbishop Diocesan bishop in Privy Council: The Rt Revd and Rt Hon The Lord Bishop of London: Dear Bishop: My Lord or Bishop Bishop, diocesan or suffragan: The Rt Revd The Lord Bishop of Durham: Dear ...
The Very Reverend (abbreviation "The Very Rev."), oral address: "Overseer" – in the Anglican-Apostolic Communion (Pentecostal) tradition, the overseer is the lowest level of prelate (only non–consecrated bishop prelate), with oversight to a specific work or department, directly responsible to the primate/presiding bishop or an ordinary ...
The style "His Grace" and "Your Grace" is used in England and some other English-speaking countries to address Catholic archbishops whose seats have come from an English diocesan background, which is not common in other countries (e.g. in France, the Philippines, and the United States Catholic bishops are addressed using the style "Excellency").
Pope Francis (b. 1936). His Holiness (Latin: Sanctitas) is the official style used to address the Roman Catholic Pope.. The full papal title, rarely used, is: . His Holiness (Francis), Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Patriarch of the West, Primate of Italy, Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province ...
The titles of the Bishop of Rome, more often referred to as the papal titles, [a] refer to the various titles used by protocol, as a form of addressing or designating a theological or secular reality of the Bishop of Rome (Pope). The Catholic Church believes that they "constitute what has been termed a primacy of honor.
The letter that former President Joe Biden wrote to President Donald Trump upon leaving office on Monday has been exclusively obtained by Fox News. Biden's letter to Trump revealed: 'May God bless ...
In the modern period also, papal letters have been constantly issued, but they proceed from the popes themselves less frequently than in the Middle Ages and Christian antiquity; most of them are issued by the papal officials, of whom there is a greater number than in the Middle Ages, and to whom have been granted large delegated powers, which include the issuing of letters.