Worship (style) explained

Worship is an honorific prefix for mayors, justices of the peace, peace commissioners, and magistrates in present or former Commonwealth realms. In spoken address, these officials are addressed as Your Worship or referred to as His Worship, Her Worship, or Their Worship. In Australia, all states now use Your Honour as the form of address for magistrates (the same as has always been used for judges in higher courts).

Etymology

The term worship implies that citizens give or attribute special worth or esteem (worthship) to their first-citizen or mayor.[1] [2]

The Right Worshipful

The Right Worshipful (The Rt Wpful., Rt. W or RW)[3] [4] is an honorific style of address for all lord mayors and mayors of specific cities including the original Cinque Ports (Sandwich, Hythe, Dover, Romney and Hastings). Some historic boroughs, such as Shrewsbury and Atcham[5] in Shropshire, also address their mayors by this prefix. In India, the mayors of cities such as Bengaluru,[6] Mysore[7] and Chennai[8] [9] are addressed as Worshipful Mayor with robes and attire as for the Lord Mayor of the City of London. The style was done away with by the Government of Kerala and the mayors in Kerala are now referred to as Respected Mayor.[10]

The style is also traditionally used for the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge.[11] In Australia, the lord mayors of Darwin, Northern Territory; Parramatta, New South Wales; Newcastle, New South Wales; and Wollongong, New South Wales are also styled thus.

The Worshipful

The Worshipful is an honorific style of address for all Chancellors of Dioceses. A Chancellor's role as a judge, presiding over any consistory or ecclesiastical court, determines that the individual should be styled in this manner.[12] [13]

Worshipful Master

In Freemasonry, Worshipful Master is the traditional style of address for the chairman of a lodge.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Book: Worship in the early church. Ralph P. Martin. 1974. 9780802816139.
  2. Book: The True Basis of Efficiency. Lawrence R. Dicksee, M.Com., F.C.A. 1922 .
  3. Web site: The Universal Technological Dictionary (Volume 1). Crabb. George. 1823.
  4. Davidson. Thomas. List of Abbreviations. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary 1908.
  5. Web site: New Mayor of Shrewsbury and Atcham. https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222841/www.shrewsbury.gov.uk/public/news/newmayor2006.htm. 2007-09-27. 19 May 2006. dead.
  6. Web site: COUNCILLORS. https://web.archive.org/web/20170813175227/http://bbmp.gov.in/councillors. 2017-08-13. BBMP. dead.
  7. Web site: University of Mysore invitation. https://web.archive.org/web/20170907170120/http://www.uni-mysore.ac.in/sites/default/files/content/valedictory_invite_1.pdf. 2017-09-07. live.
  8. Web site: HON'BLE RAILWAY MINISTER'S INSPECTION AT ROYAPURAM RAILWAY STATION. https://web.archive.org/web/20170907165358/http://www.indiarailwayinfo.com/2014/09/honble-railway-ministers-inspecton-at.html. 2017-09-07. dead. 26 September 2014.
  9. Web site: Courtesy call on the Worshipful Mayor Thiru Saidai Duraisamy, Corporation of Chennai. https://web.archive.org/web/20180406124051/http://www.india.diplo.de/Vertretung/indien/en/03__Chennai/03__06/CourtesyCallMayor.html. 2018-04-06.
  10. Web site: The Kerala government on Wednesday decided to do away with the practice of addressing city mayors as 'Worshipful Mayor'. They will be addressed as 'Respected Mayor' instead. City corporations will now be known as municipal corporations.. https://web.archive.org/web/20171105081215/https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/The-Kerala-government-on-Wednesday-decided-to-do-away-with-the-practice-of-addressing-city-mayors-as-Worshipful-Mayor-They-will-be-addressed-as-Respected-Mayor-instead-City-corporations-will-now-be-known-as-municipal-corporations-/articleshow/19601910.cms. 2017-11-05. The Times of India. April 17, 2013. dead.
  11. Web site: Debretts. Executive Head of a University, including Vice-Chancellor. https://web.archive.org/web/20121104004303/http://www.debretts.com/forms-of-address/professions/academics/vice-chancellor.aspx. 2012-11-04. dead.
  12. Web site: Contact – Guildford Diocesan Registry. 2021-03-31. en-GB.
  13. Web site: 2021-01-11. New Chancellor appointed for the Diocese of London. 2021-03-31. Diocese of London. en-US.

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