Right Reverend
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The Right Reverend (Rt. Rev.) is a style applied to certain religious figures.
- In the Anglican Communion and the Catholic Church in Great Britain, it applies to bishops.
- 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, and
- 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 Western (Latin Rite) Church, and archimandrites in the Eastern Catholic Churches ("Eastern Rites"). Monsignors of the ranks of Apostolic Protonotary and Domestic Prelate were formerly styled Right Reverend, but the currently correct style for them is now Reverend Monsignor.
- Like that of the Anglican Communion, the style is also applied to the bishops in the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Other Methodist denominations, including the United Methodist Church, do not use the style.
