Lexicographical Neighbors of Acolyths
Literary usage of Acolyths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Church: Its History, Doctrine, Worship, and Constitution Traced by William Dool Killen (1859)
"In addition to the bishop, the presbyters, and the deacons, there were also, in
AD 251, in the Church of Rome lectors, sub-deacons, acolyths, exorcists, ..."
2. Sacred Archæology: A Popular Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Art and by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1868)
"Their duties were to read Scripture from the ambon, and in the East to act as
acolyths. They were often very young, and in primitive times were selected ..."
3. The Antiquities of the Christian Church by Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, Carl Christian Friedrich Siegel (1841)
"This may have arisen from the fact that the subdeacons in the Greek church have
a close analogy with the acolyths in the Latin, ..."
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