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Churches have a difficult time finding elders, deacons or deaconesses to serve.
After a short introduction on the role of deacons and deaconesses, Swan relates the brief stories of sixteen such female ministers.
This report provides a thorough review of the development of the diaconate and the ministry of deacons.
Whereas, in recent times, the diaconate was a stepping stone to priesthood, there is a long history of married deacons in the Church.
When he arrived at Kabwata, he found a team of deacons and one elder heading the church.
Within two years he created an eldership and divided the duties, which left the deacons out of some decision making.
In addition to ministers, many Baptist churches had ruling elders, assistants, exhorters, deacons, deaconesses, elderesses, and evangelists.
The church ministry is now divided according to different age groups and administered by the pastor and six deacons elected by the congregation.
She will be one of three women deacons in the diocese, but only until June 24 when the other two become priested.
Each religious community was semi-autonomous and guided by a bishop and by preachers and deacons who were not specially schooled.
The local presbyteries are voting this winter and spring on whether to open the door to ordination of gay ministers, elders and deacons.
A third task addresses continuing ministerial education and ongoing support for deacons.
Last January our relatively new archbishop began a series of meetings in each vicariate with the priests, deacons, religious, and parishioners.
After a short time at Dexter Avenue, the younger King wrestled the reins of leadership from the deacons.
He understood the Doctor and commended his stand on the ecclesiastical issues of the day to members of the congregation and to the deacons.
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.
I give the homilies in our church, and we do workshops with other priests and deacons and Protestant ministers on this subject.
In the apostolic era many women are mentioned as apostles, leaders of house churches, prophets, deacons, and so on.
As we know, they had maintained the practice of ordaining women deacons during the Eucharistic liturgy.
The deacons will substitute for priests at weekend ceremonies of readings and prayers, but will not be able to consecrate the Host.
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And the deacons came in and began to unrobe him, and took from him the alb and the girdle, the maniple and the stole.
The fact wuz, they needed some buzz saw mills bad, and wuz very glad to have these deacons lay holt of 'em.
Mr. Trafton was hungry, and quite willing to take dinner at the deacons, instead of waiting till they arrived at East Berlin.
Abram afterwards built and endowed an oratory near the tetrastyle, and Sergius ordained him priest and his two sons deacons.
The eldest princess followed him, and the priests and deacons and some servants also went in at the door.
On some he put their stole, on others their amice, on the deacons the alb.
Through this initiative, diocesan catechists, youth and lay ecclesial ministers, and deacons in training can earn continuing education credits from the University of Dayton.
The most humble clerks such as our deacons and sacristans, bless with holy water sprinklers, which resemble an infinite number of blessing fingers.
There were the deacons, and other eminently pious members of his church.
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