Your Holiness
Pope's formal title
Your Holiness is a formal title of address for the Pope, and occasionally for other high religious figures such as the Dalai Lama or Eastern Orthodox patriarchs.
It functions like "Your Majesty" for royalty—used when speaking directly to the person rather than about them: Your Holiness, may I ask a question?
The third-person equivalent is "His Holiness."
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- Religious Titlesfather, reverend, bishop, abbot, abbess
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