The Right Reverend

Usage

• In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholicism in [the United Kingdom|Catholic Church in Great Britain], it applies to bishops, except that The Most Reverend is used for archbishops.
• 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]
• * the current Moderator of the Presbyterian [Church of East Africa]
• * the current Moderator of Presbyterian Church of Ghana
• * the current Moderator of the Evangelical [Presbyterian Church, Ghana]
• * the current Moderator of the Sutlej Reformed Church of Pakistan
• In the Catholic Church, it applies to abbots of monasteries in the Latin Church and archimandrites in the Catholic Churches">Roman Catholic Church">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".
• 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.
• In the General Church of the New Jerusalem the title is used for all bishops who have been ordained into the third or ecclesiastical degree of the priesthood.