Worship is an honorific prefix for mayors, justices of the peace, peace commissioners, and magistrates (when sitting on the bench - Appendix 5: Communications to holders of honours and titles in New Zealand ) in present or former Commonwealth realms.
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).
[citation needed] The term worship implies that citizens give or attribute special worth or esteem (worthship) to their first-citizen or mayor.
Some historic boroughs, such as Shrewsbury and Atcham[5] in Shropshire, also address their mayors by this prefix.
A Chancellor's role as a judge, presiding over any consistory or ecclesiastical court, determines that the individual should be styled in this manner.