Style manner of address: Encyclopedia II - Style manner of address - Examples of styles

Style manner of address - Examples of styles

Style manner of address - In law courts

• The Honorable (abbreviation Hon., oral address Your Honor) — Judges of Commonwealth countries and Justices in the United States
• Oral address Your Worship - Justices of the Peace (Magistrates) in the United Kingdom

Style manner of address - In diplomacy

• His Excellency (abbreviation HE, oral address Your Excellency) — most Ambassadors, High Commisioners and Permanent Representatives to International Organizations
• The Honorable (oral address Mr./Madam Ambassador) — U.S. Ambassadors

Style manner of address - In religion

• His All Holiness (abbreviation HAH, oral address Your All Holiness) — The Patriarch of Constantinople
• His Holiness (abbreviation HH, oral address Your Holiness) — The Pope (Roman Catholic Church), The Dalai Lama, The Coptic Pope, The Patriarch of Moscow
• Holy Father — The Pope of Rome
• His Beatitude (oral address Your Beatitude) — Eastern, Oriental and Roman Catholic Patriarchs
• His Eminence (oral address Your Eminence) — Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Metropolitans and Archbishops
• His Excellency or The Most Reverend (abbreviation The Most Rev., oral address Your Excellency) — Roman Catholic Archbishops and Bishops in the United States.
• His Grace or The Most Reverend (abbreviation for latter The Most Rev., oral address Your Grace) — Roman Catholic Archbishops in Commonwealth countries; and Roman Catholic Bishops in Ireland
• His Grace or The Right Reverend (abbreviation for latter The Rt. Rev., oral address Your Grace) — Eastern Orthodox Bishops
• His Lordship or The Right Reverend (abbreviation for latter The Rt Rev., oral address My Lord Bishop) — Roman Catholic Bishops in Commonwealth countries.
• The Most Reverend and Right Honourable (abbreviation The Most Rev. and Rt Hon., oral address Your Grace) — Anglican Archbishops of Canterbury and York
• The Most Reverend (abbreviation The Most Rev., oral address Your Grace) — Anglican Archbishop of Wales; Anglican Archbishops of Armagh and of Dublin
• The Most Reverend (abbreviation The Most Rev., oral address My Lord) — Anglican Bishop of Meath and Kildare
• The Right Reverend and Right Honourable (abbreviation The Rt Rev. and Rt Hon., oral address Bishop) — Anglican Bishop of London
• The Right Reverend (abbreviation The Rt Rev., oral address Bishop) — other Anglican Bishops
• The Right Reverend (abbreviation The Rt Rev., oral address Reverend) — Moderator of the United Church of Canada
• The Right Reverend Father (abbreviation The Rt. Rev. Fr., oral address Father) — Eastern Orthodox archimandrites
• The Very Reverend Father (abbreviation The Very Rev. Fr., oral address Father) — Eastern Orthodox archpriests
• The Very Reverend (abbreviation The Very Rev. , oral address Very Reverend Sir or Mr Dean) — Anglican Deans of Cathedrals
• The Venerable (oral address Venerable Sir or Mr Archdeacon) — Anglican Archdeacons
• The Reverend (abbreviation Rev.) — Protestant ordained ministers
• The Reverend Father (abbreviation Rev. Fr., oral address Father) — Catholic priests
• His Highness the Aga Khan (abbreviation HH the Aga Khan., oral address Your Highness and then Sir) — The Head of the Ismalii group of Shi'ite muslims.

Style manner of address - In monarchies

• His/Her Majesty (abbreviation HM, oral address Your Majesty) — Kings and Queens and Sultans
• His/Her Royal Highness (abbreviation HRH, oral address Your Royal Highness) — other members of a Royal House, reigning grand dukes, members of some grand ducal houses, some princes consort
• His/Her Imperial Majesty (abbreviation HIM, oral address Your Imperial Majesty) — Emperors and Empresses
• His/Her Imperial Highness (abbreviation HIH, oral address Your Imperial Highness) — other members of an Imperial House
• His/Her Imperial and Royal Highness (abbreviation HI&RH, oral address Your Imperial and Royal Highness) — Archdukes of the Habsburg family, the German Crown Prince and German Crown Princess
• His/Her Grand Ducal Highness (abbrevation HGDH, oral address Your Grand Ducal Highness) — junior members of some grand ducal houses
• His/Her Highness (abbreviation HH, oral address, Your Highness) — reigning dukes and members of reigning ducal houses, members of some grand ducal houses, junior members of some royal houses, emirs and sheikhs
• His/Her Ducal Serene Highness (abbreviation HDSH, oral address, Your Ducal Serene Highness — members of some ducal houses
• His/Her Serene Highness (abbreviation HSH, oral address Your Serene Highness) — members of a Princely House
• His/Her Illustrious Highness (abbreviation HIllH, oral address Your Illustrious Highness) — members of sovereign or mediatized comital houses
• His/Her Excellency (abbreviation HE, oral address Your Excellency) — Governors-General

Style manner of address - In republics

• His Excellency (abbreviation HE, oral address Your Excellency) —Presidents

• The President of the United States is officially forbidden to use the style "His/Her Excellency"; instead The Honorable or more commonly "Mr President" are used. Nonetheless, in an international context the President of the USA is often addressed as His Excellency.

• The custom in France is to call office-holders acting within their official capacity "Mr" (Monsieur) or "Ms" (Madame) followed by the name of their offices. Thus, the President of the Republic is "Mr President" or "Mr President of the Republic" if a male, "Ms..." if a female; this may occasionally lead to situations when there are presidents of various bodies. Styles such as "excellency" or similar are not used, except for talking about foreign dignitaries.

Style manner of address - In the United Kingdom

• The Most Noble or His Grace (oral address Your Grace) — Dukes. Occasionally the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Archbishop of York and other Archbishops are also styled His Grace.
• The Most Honourable (abbreviation The Most Hon.) — Marquesses
• The Right Honourable (abbreviation The Rt Hon.) — Earls, Viscounts, Barons and members of the Privy Council
• The Honourable (abbreviation The Hon.) — younger sons of Earls, all children of Viscounts and Barons

• The Right Honourable Member for... — Commonwealth MPs who are Privy Counsellors, some Commonwealth Realm prime ministers
• The Honourable Member for... — British MPs who are not Privy Counsellors, Australian members of the Federal Executive Council, members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada.

Style manner of address - In Canada

• The Right Honourable — current and former prime ministers, governors general, Chief Justices of the Supreme Court
• His/Her Excellency — current governor general and viceregal consort
• His/Her Honour — provincial lieutenant governors
• His/Her Honour Judge N. — judges of provincial courts and formerly judges of district or county courts
• The Honourable — members of the Queen's Privy Council for Canada (including federal ministers and provincial and territorial premiers)
• The Honourable Mr,/Madam Justice N. — justices of superior courts
• The honourable member for ... — all MPs

Style manner of address - In Australia

• His/Her Excellency - Governor-General and all state Governors
• The Honourable - Justices of the High Court of Australia
• The Honourable - all Ministers who are current members of State and Federal Executive Councils

Style manner of address - In the Philippines

• His/Her Illustrious Excellency- The President of the Philippines. This is a throwback to Spanish colonial practice when the Royal Governor General of the Philippines used the same title. The full title of the current Philippine President is "Her Illustrious Excellency, The Right Honourable the President for the Republic of the Philippines, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo".
• His/Her Excellency- Governors of Philippine Provinces. The full title of a Philippine Governor is "His/Her Excellency, The Honourable the Governor for the Province of X".
• His/Her Honour- Lieutenant Governors of Provinces. The full title of a Philippine Lieutenant Governor is "His/Her Honour, The Honourable the Lieutenant Governor for the Province of X".
• Sir/Madame- The Presidential or Gubernatorial Consort has no constitutional title, but it is common custom to address the Consort with these titles. The titles "Don" and "Doña" are used occasionally.

Style manner of address - Local government

• The Right Honourable — Lord Mayors of London, Cardiff, Belfast, York and Bristol (England and Wales in the United Kingdom); Lord Provosts of Edinburgh and Glasgow (Scotland in the United Kingdom); Lord Mayor of Dublin (Republic of Ireland); and (rarely used nowadays) Lord Mayors of all state and territorial capital cities of Australia
• The Right Worshipful — all other Lord Mayors and Mayors of cities and the original Cinque Ports (United Kingdom), and (rarely used nowadays) Lord Mayors of certain large cities of Australia
• The Worshipful — all other Mayors or other municipal governors (United Kingdom and generally Commonwealth)
• His/Her Worship (verbal address Your Worship) — municipal leaders in Commonwealth Realms.
• The Honorable — mayors and other elected local officials in the United States. Typically used only in formal circumstances in recent years, and not in direct address.

Style manner of address - United States governors

• His/Her Excellency (oral address Excellency, Your Excellency)— Governors of the Commonwealth of Virginia, Governors of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and of the states of Connecticut, Maine, and New Hampshire
• The Honorable (oral address Your Honor)— most other US Governors
• Mr./Madam Governor
• The Distinguished Gentleman/Gentlewoman, or, The Honorable — United States Congress

Style manner of address - Political titles used as styles

Commonwealth Prime Ministers are usually addressed just as Prime Minister, but the form of address Mr. Prime Minister is also often used in certain countries. "Mr. Prime Minister" remains a common form of address in international diplomacy, "Prime Minister" alone remains more common within domestic politics. Irish Taoisigh (prime ministers) are addressed singularly as Taoiseach. Other Irish and Commonwealth politicians tend to be addressed by their titles alone, for example "Thank you, Minister" or "Good afternoon, Senator," though "Mr." or "Madam" may also sometimes be used as a prefix, as in the United States.

In the United States and other countries politicians are frequently addressed by their title preceded by Mister or Madam depending on the gender of the holder: for example Mr. Secretary, Madam Secretary, Mr. Mayor, etc. This is generally regarded as the most formal form of address, however, and the use of titles alone, such as "Senator," "Governor," etc remains more common for day-to-day address, as is the case in most Commonwealth countries. The only exception is the President of the United States, who is almost never refered to as just "President" (although a fuller form combining title and name, such as "President Bush," is acceptable).

In general, the manner of addressing titled officials with the style "Mr/Madam (title)" is frequently used by members of the international media who may not be familiar with a politician's more specific honorific title (excellency, your honor, etc), but still want to show respect.

Style manner of address - Styles existing through marriage

Styles can be acquired through marriage, though traditionally this applies more to wives of office-holders than to husbands. Thus, in the United Kingdom, The Princess Royal is styled HRH, her husband, Timothy Laurence, has no style and there would have to be a special arrangement to give him one. In contrast, when Sophie Rhys-Jones married Prince Edward, as Princess Edward or The Countess of Wessex she automatically acquired an HRH, by virtue of her marriage to a royal prince.

This gender differentiation continues into the next generation in traditional royal families. Thus, while the sons of The Prince of Wales and the daughters of The Duke of York have HRH styles, the children of The Princess Royal have no styles. (She requested that they, like her husband, be given no courtesy titles or peerages, though they could have been: the key point is that they did not automatically receive any.)

Adapted from the Wikipedia article "Examples of styles", under the G.N U Free Docmentation License. Please also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki