Monsignor, pl. monsignori,'s the form of address for those members of the clergy of the Catholic Church holding certain ecclesiastical honorific titles. Monsignor's the apocopic form of the Italian monsignore, from the French mon seigneur, meaning "my lord". In English, it's abbreviated Msgr, Mgr, or Mons. As a form of address, "Monsignor" isn't itself an appointment (properly speaking, one can't be "made a monsignor" nor can one be "the monsignor of a parish"). It's a title associated with hono… (More on Monsignor)