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What is the noun for deacon?

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deacon
  1. (Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
  2. (Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
  3. (Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
  4. (Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
  5. (Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
  6. (freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
  7. (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
  8. (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
  9. (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
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  11. Examples:
    1. “The deacon delivered a heartfelt sermon during Sunday service.”
deaconess
  1. A female deacon.
  2. A female servant in the early Christian church.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “The strongest developments regarding deaconess sisterhoods among Baptists in America occurred among the German Baptists.”
      “A deaconess is about to become the first Church of England clergywoman to marry a divorced man.”
      “At this time she decided to become a deaconess in the Methodist Church and worked towards that end.”
deaconhood
  1. The state or office of being a deacon; deaconship.
deaconship
  1. The position or role of a deacon.
deaconry
  1. deaconship
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  3. Examples:
    1. “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.”
deaconships
  1. plural of deaconship
deaconesses
  1. plural of deaconess
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  3. Examples:
    1. “She has also proposed a creative revival of the order of deaconesses that once existed in the Eastern Church.”
      “Churches have a difficult time finding elders, deacons or deaconesses to serve.”
      “He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia.”
deaconries
deacons
  1. plural of deacon
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  3. Examples:
    1. “In certain respects, lay ministers and ordained deacons have an advantage over priests in counseling prisoners.”
      “Whether we are lay or ordained as bishops, priests, or deacons, we are all called in our baptism to servanthood as the foundation of ministry.”
      “Strong organizations for priests, deacons, pastoral ministers, and other groups, including lay groups, are indispensable.”
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