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Definition of Subdeacon
1. Noun. A clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church.
Definition of Subdeacon
1. n. One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.
Definition of Subdeacon
1. Noun. A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church. ¹
2. Noun. A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Subdeacon
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Subdeacon
Literary usage of Subdeacon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Parson's Handbook: Containing Practical Directions Both for Parsons and by Percy Dearmer (1907)
"IN order to make this book equally useful for all parishes the names of the deacon
and subdeacon are in this chapter placed in square brackets. ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The privileges of the deacon to sing the Gospel and (in the West) of the subdeacon
to read the Epistle are a later development (sec GOSPELS IN THE LITURGY). ..."
3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"... high mass is assisted by a deacon and subdeacon who are usually priests.
The minor functions are performed by acolytes, usually laymen and boys. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He has no assistant deacons, their duties being performed by the deacon, subdeacon,
and master of ceremonies; there is no seventh candle on the altar, ..."
5. Canterbury and York Series by Canterbury and York Society (1907)
"Institution to the Church of Brampton Bryan of Robert de Lacy, subdeacon, presented
by the Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England. ..."
6. A Dictionary of Christian Biography, Literature, Sects and Doctrines: Being by HENRY. WACE (1880)
"[G. Ï. S.] FORTUNATUS (87), subdeacon of Carthage (Cyp. Ep. 84. ... [JG] [HWP]
FORTUNATUS (42), subdeacon, by whom pope ..."
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