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• Former Suffragan Bishop of Southampton, the Rt Rev Jonathan Gledhill, ordained Cate as a deacon at Romsey Abbey in 2001 and the curate was priested the following year.
• The dalmatic and tunicle are modified chasubles worn by the deacon and subdeacon respectively at a high Mass.
• the deacon was canonically inducted
• Synaxar (synaxarion), which contains legends of saints, sometimes read instead of those from the Acts of the Apostles, and the "Book of the Ministry of the Deacons" (Brightman, lxvii). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
• She looked towards the Archdeacon and recognised the signs of some one about to take the plunge.
• He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia.
• As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions. Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
• This pope also permitted the conferring of priesthood and deaconship on the Saturdays of ember week -- these were formerly given only at Easter. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
• They are the primary carers of children, collectors of food like coconuts and fruit, and also act as deaconesses in the church.
• On the afternoon of the Saturday in Easter week, say these writers, the priests of the eighteen principal 'deaconries' -- an ecclesiastical division of the city long ago abolished and now somewhat obscure -- caused the bells to be rung, and the people assembled at their parish churches, where they were received by a 'mansionarius,' -- probably meaning here 'a visitor of houses, '-- and a layman, who was arrayed in a tunic, and crowned with the flowers of the cornel cherry. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome