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deacon
(Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
(Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
(Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
(Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordainedclergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
(Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
“Actually Orthodoxy is the expression of a human and divine civilization, deaconry towards man, image of Christ.”
“Innocent II received episcopal consecration from Cardinal Giovanni of Ostia in the church S. Maria Nuova, the titular deaconry of Chancellor Aymeric.”
“The inner sanctuary forms the other part of the cathedral including the Baptism Room, the Temple and the Deaconry.”