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Deacon [fr. diacre, Fr.; diacono, It., Span., and Port.; diaconus, Lat.; Gk.] (1) A minister or servant of the church, whose office is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament, etc. He may now perform any of the divine offices which a priest may, except only pronouncing the absolution and consecrating the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper. By the Clergy Ordination Act, 1804 (44 Geo. 3, c. 43), it is provided (conformably to Canon 34 of the Canons of 1603) that none shall be ordained deacon under twenty-three years, nor priest under twenty-four years of age; though as to deacons the Archbishop of Canterbury has the Privilege of admitting them (by faculty or dispensation) at an earlier age. See, further, under the title CLERGY; and see Phill. Eccl. Law.(2) A lay office among dissenters....
Chamberdekins, or Chamber-deacons
Chamberdekins, or Chamber-deacons, certain por Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from England, 1 Hen. 5....
Deaconhood
The state of being a deacon office of a deacon deaconship...
Diaconate
The office of a deacon deaconship also a body or board of deacons...
Clerical subscription
Clerical subscription. The (English) Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c.122), s. 4, as amended by the Statute Law Revision Act, 1893, enacts that every person about to be ordained priest or deacon shall, before ordination, in the presence of the archbishop or bishop by whom he is about to be ordained, make the following 'Declaration of Assent':I assent to the Thirty-nine Articles of Religion, and to the Book of Common Prayer and of the ordering of Bishops, Priests, and Deacons. I believe the doctrine of the Church of England, as therein set forth, to be agreeable to the word of God; and in public prayer and administration of the Sacraments I will use the form in the said book prescribed, and none other, except so far as shall be ordered by lawful authority.See Articles OF RELIGION; and for an attempt to define 'lawful authority,' see Lely on the Church of England Position, at p. 138.Oaths of allegiance and of canonical obedience to the bishop have also to be taken....
Holy orders
Holy orders. These are, in the English Church, the orders of bishops (including archbishops), priests, and deacons. See CLERGY; DEACON; PRIEST...
Ordines majores et minores
Ordines majores et minores. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and sub-deacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission to an ecclesiastical dignity or cure, were called ordines majores; and the inferior orders of chanters, psalmists, ostiary, reader, exorcist, and acolyte, were called ordines minores; persons ordained to the ordines minores had their prima tonsura different from the tonsura clericalis, Cowel....
Dalmatica
A vestment with wide sleeves and with two stripes worn at Mass by deacons and by bishops at pontifical Mass imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia...
Deacon
An officer in Christian churches appointed to perform certain subordinate duties varying in different communions In the Roman Catholic and Episcopal churches a person admitted to the lowest order in the ministry subordinate to the bishops and priests In Presbyterian churches he is subordinate to the minister and elders and has charge of certain duties connected with the communion service and the care of the poor In Congregational churches he is subordinate to the pastor and has duties as in the Presbyterian church...
Deaconess
A female deacon...
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