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Definition of Subdeacons
1. subdeacon [n] - See also: subdeacon
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subdeacons
Literary usage of Subdeacons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1893)
"10), places them after the subdeacons, among the clergy who might be appointed
by the ... subdeacons ..."
2. The Works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham by Joseph Bingham, Richard D. Bingham (1855)
"These were anciently the chief of the subdeacons' offices at their first ...
observe their directions : this habit therefore the subdeacons might not wear, ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... viz., 12 priests, 18 deacons, 6 deaconesses, 8 subdeacons, 20 lectors, 4
cantors, and 7 doorkeepers. From these two examples we may infer what the other ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"The clergy at that time consisted of a bishop, forty-six presbyters, seven deacons,
as many subdeacons, forty-two ..."
5. The Antiquities of the Christian Church by Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, Carl Christian Friedrich Siegel (1841)
"The specific duty of the subdeacons was to assist the deacons in their duties.
... For this reason they were provided with the assistance of the subdeacons. ..."
6. The Antiquities of the Christian Church by Johann Christian Wilhelm Augusti, Georg Friedrich Heinrich Rheinwald, Carl Christian Friedrich Siegel (1841)
"The specific duty of the subdeacons was to assist the deacons in their duties.
... For this reason they were provided with the assistance of the subdeacons. ..."
7. The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and Ecclesiastical by Hugh James Rose, Samuel Roffey Maitland (1833)
"ON subdeacons. Yours, CTC SIR,—Among the various publications which have lately
issued from the press on the subject of' Reform in the Church is an ..."
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