Most Reverend

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The Most Reverend is a style applied to certain religious figures.

• In the Roman Catholic Church (outside Great Britain), all bishops are styled the Most Reverend, as well as monsignors of the grade protonotary apostolic de numero.
• In the Roman Catholic Church (inside Great Britain), archbishops are styled the Most Reverend, with bishops being styled the Right Reverend.
• In the Anglican Communion, primates and archbishops (as metropolitan bishops of ecclesiastical provinces) are given the style (the Bishop of Meath and Kildare is also given this style for historical reasons). In some provinces (notably the Church of England), retired archbishops revert to being styled "the Right Reverend".