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Definition of Diaconate
1. n. The office of a deacon; deaconship; also, a body or board of deacons.
2. a. Governed by deacons.
Definition of Diaconate
1. Noun. The rank of a deacon ¹
2. Noun. Deacons considered as a group ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Diaconate
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diaconate
Literary usage of Diaconate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Woman's Work in the Church: Historical Notes on Deaconesses and Sisterhoods by John Malcolm Forbes Ludlow (1866)
"The Greek Female diaconate in the Codes and later Councils, till its disappearance.
From the fifth century downwards, the female diaconate comes no more ..."
2. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1886)
"... which declares that "the permanent and ordinary offices of the congregation
shall be the pastorate and diaconate," was postponed. ..."
3. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... and endowed them largely " to meet the frequent demands of the diaconate."
Gregory two hundred years later reorganized the system. ..."
4. A Study of Christianity as Organized: Its Ideas and Forms by John Adam Kern (1910)
"WE have seen reason to believe that the diaconate is the most characteristic and,
in name at least, the most catholic of the three chief offices in the ..."
5. Waymarks in Church History by William Bright (1894)
"APPENDIX J. "A PROFESSIONAL diaconate." IT may be asked, " Supposing the plea of
a revival or restoration to be untenable, in behalf of the plan of a ..."
6. The Book of Church Law: Being an Exposition of the Legal Rights and Duties by John Henry Blunt (1876)
"Ordination to the diaconate. [6.] Little need be said on the subject of the
Ordination Service. The absolutely essential part of it is the imposition of ..."
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