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Clerical subscription
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
Brawling
any term not exceeding two months, See Matthews v. King, (1934) 1 KB 505. To object to a deacon presenting himself for ordination as priest, that he has taken part in services in churches, in breach of
Benefice
that at the date of presentation not more than three years have elapsed since the presentee was ordained deacon, or that the presentee is unfit for the discharge of the duties of the benefice by reason of
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Articles of religion
Clerical Subscription Act, 1865 (28 & 29 Vict. c. 122) (see CLERICAL SUBSCRIPTION), to be subscribed by every deacon or priest before ordination, and also by every person about to be instituted to a benefice, or licensed
Eastern Church
a second time selects its bishops from the monastic clergy only recognizes the offices of bishop priest and deacon as the three necessary degrees of orders venerates relics and icons and has an elaborate ritual See also
Diaconate
The office of a deacon deaconship also a body or board of deacons
Diaconal
Of or pertaining to a deacon
Deaconship
The office or ministry of a deacon or deaconess
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
Episcopacy
Government of the church by bishops church government by three distinct orders of ministers bishops priests and deacons of whom the bishops have an authority superior and of a different kind
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