| 单词 | most reverend |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMost Reverend (b) With distinguishing adverb as the title of a senior member of the clergy, as Most Reverend, Right Reverend, Very Reverend.The terms are variously applied to senior clergy from a range of Christian denominations, but especially in the Anglican communion and in the Roman Catholic Church. In the Anglican communion, Most Reverend designates an archbishop, Right Reverend a bishop, and Very Reverend a dean. In the Roman Catholic Church, a bishop is designated Most Reverend in Ireland, but Right Reverend in the United Kingdom. See also sense B. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > archbishop > [adjective] archiepiscopal1611 archprelatic1647 Most Reverend1681 archprelatical1882 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > bishop > [noun] bishopc897 patriarcheOE bispa1300 ordinarya1325 ordinar?1403 father1418 discretion1421 pontificalc1440 diocesanc1450 rocheter1559 monseigneur1561 pope1563 bite-sheep1570 presul1577 rochet1581 diocesser1606 lawn sleevesc1640 episcopant1641 Right Reverend1681 diocesian1686 lawn-man1795 diocesiarch1805 bish1875 shire-bishop1880 1681 R. Boyle Let. 9 Apr. in Corr. (2001) V. 251 The Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Meath & some other worthy Persons in your Parts. 1714 R. Steele Romish Eccles. Hist. 73 The most Reverend P. Fr. Tomasso Ripoll, Provincial of the Holy Land, and Postulator of the Canonization of Pius. 1767 A. Bedingfield Short Acct. Life Mary of Holy Cross p. xviii He repeated this Charge..to his Coadjutor and Successor, the Right Reverend Benjamin Petre, titular Bishop of Prusa. 1893 Catholic Dict. (new ed.) 590/1 The Very Reverend Father Colin died..at the age of eighty-five. 1906 Official Catholic Directory 75 Archdiocese of Milwaukee... Most Reverend Sebastian Gebhard Messmer, D.D., D.C.L., Archbishop of Milwaukee. 1985 Globe & Mail (Totonto) (Nexis) 29 Aug. Lewis, of course, is Most Reverend Lewis Garnsworthy, Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of Toronto. Clarke is Very Reverend Clarke MacDonald, past moderator of the United Church of Canada. 1992 G. Hancock Sign & Seal iii. viii. 194 The information that precipitated my return [to Ethiopia] was provided to me by the Very Reverend Liqa Berhanat Solomon Gabre Selassie. 2004 Essex Chron. (Nexis) 8 July 17 The new Bishop of Chelmsford, the Right Reverend John Gladwin, was among the guest speakers. < as lemmas |
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