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Deacon

Deacon [fr. diacre, Fr.; diacono, It., Span., and Port.; diaconus, Lat.;

Chamberdekins, or Chamber-deacons, certain por Irish scholars, clothed in mean habit, and living under no rule; also beggars banished from...

Ordines majores et minores. The holy orders of priest, deacon, and sub-deacon, any of which qualified for presentation and admission

The state of being a deacon office of a deacon deaconship

v. King, (1934) 1 KB 505. To object to a deacon presenting himself for ordination as priest, that he has taken

attained his twenty-third year before he can be ordained a deacon; and his twenty-fourth to receive priest'' orders.---4 Geo. 3, c.

principal, means a person appointed by an archbishop, bishop, or deacon to exercise juris-diction in and preside over an ecclesiastical court,

English Church, the orders of bishops (including archbishops), priests, and deacons. See CLERGY; DEACON; PRIEST

Diaconate, the office of a deacon

enacts that every person about to be ordained priest or deacon shall, before ordination, in the presence of the archbishop or