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DEACON, Eccl. law. A minister or servant in the church whose office, in some churches, is to assist the priest in divine service, and the distribution of the sacrament. |
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While we believe that the church of Jesus Christ is free to adapt the structure of the divinely instituted Ministry in the way she sees fit (so long as the essential meaning and function of apostolic Ministry is retained), we affirm explicitly that the apostolic Ministry is retained in a preeminent way in the episcopate, the presbyterate, and the diaconate. Deacon William Ditewig, executive director at the Secretariat for the Diaconate of the U. The allotment of a church-owned house had probably been designed to keep the family under one roof but, afterwards, the diaconate placed the children with caregivers, as was usual when the poor, deemed to be irresponsible, required relief. |
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