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What is a subdeacon?

What is a subdeacon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
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He returned to Rosaryville and was ordained subdeacon in 1924 and priest on June 13, 1926 by Archbishop Shaw.
On other occasions the girded alb and the amice are often worn by the deacon and subdeacon.
Nor shall a subdeacon, deacon or priest practise surgery involving cutting or cautery.
For deacon and subdeacon: amice, alb and cincture, and stole and dalmatic for the deacon, and tunic for the subdeacon.
The dalmatic and tunicle are modified chasubles worn by the deacon and subdeacon respectively at a high Mass.
At the Elevation the thurifer again brings the thurible and gives it to the subdeacon for incensing the Host.

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