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Deacons are styled as The Reverend, The Reverend Deacon, or The Reverend Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Mx. [11] [a] Priests are usually styled as The Reverend, The Reverend Father/Mother (even if not a religious; abbreviated Fr/Mthr) or The Reverend Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms/Mx. Heads of some women's religious orders are styled as The Reverend Mother (even if not ordained).
Reverend Monsignor, Rev. Msgr., or simply Monsignor. Three classes of papal honours for clergy. Purely honorary. Canon: Very Reverend, Very Rev., Canon [5] Members of a 'chapter' of a cathedral or other significant church. Originally indicative of simply a community of clergy living a semi-religious/monastic life, now often used purely as an ...
Medieval manuscripts abound in abbreviations, owing in part to the abandonment of the uncial, or quasi-uncial, and the almost universal use of the cursive, hand.The medieval writer inherited a few from Christian antiquity; others he invented or adapted, in order to save time and parchment.
Monsignor (/ m ɒ n ˈ s iː n j ər /; Italian: monsignore [monsiɲˈɲoːre]) is a form of address or title for certain members of the clergy in the Catholic Church.Monsignor is the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, meaning "my lord".
I Massachusetts, II Rhode Island [N 1] 8 Abraham Jarvis: 2 3 7 [8] 1797 II Connecticut: 9 Benjamin Moore: 2 5 8 [9] 1801 II New York: 10 Samuel Parker: 2 5 8 9 [10] 1804 II Massachusetts: 11 John Henry Hobart: 2 3 8 [11] 1811 III New York: 12 Alexander Viets Griswold: 2 3 8 [12] 1811 Eastern Diocese (simultaneously III Massachusetts, III Rhode ...
A Roman Catholic priest received a life sentence Friday for his convictions on five counts related to sex-trafficking charges in the molestation of three boys who prosecutors say he met at an Ohio ...
Pope John Paul II appointed Auxiliary Bishop Henry J. Mansell of New York as the twelfth bishop of Buffalo in 1995. [48] Mansell established the Catholic Health Care System of Western New York, combining the local Catholic hospitals, nursing homes, and other health care facilities.
From a proposed prison near Boyle Heights to lead contamination from an Exide battery plant, Monsignor John Moretta has fought against threats to his mostly Latino, low-income parishioners.