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How to pronounce deacons
IPA transcription: ['dikənz]
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Noun
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a Protestant layman who assists the minister
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a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
Usage examples
- Officers in the "Primitive Advent Christian Church" are pastors, elders and deacons.
- Additionally, unlike deacons, subdeacons do not wear a stole under their tunicle.
- In modern Greek Orthodox practice, all deacons usually wear the double orarion.
- Each standing commission consists of three bishops, three priests or deacons, and six laypersons.
- Lay ecclesial ministers are coworkers with the bishop alongside priests and deacons.
- Vicars, Fathers, and Deacons are exempt from this lobbying and will work on Sundays.