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Christian religious honorific style

"Reverend" and "Rev." redirect here. For other uses, see Reverend (disambiguation) and Rev. (disambiguation).

The Reverend is an honorificstyle given before the names of certain Christian clergy and ministers.

There are sometimes differences in the way the style is used in different countries and church traditions. The Reverend is correctly called a style, but is sometimes referred to as a title, form of address, or title of respect.^[1]

The term is an anglicisation of the Latin reverendus, the style originally used in Latin documents in medieval Europe.

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It is the gerundive or future passive participle of the verb revereri ("to respect; to revere"), meaning "[one who is] to be revered/must be respected". The Reverend is therefore equivalent to the Honourable or the Venerable.

It is paired with a modifier or noun for some offices in some religious traditions: Lutheran archbishops, Anglican archbishops,