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deacon

In the Roman Catholic and Anglican churches, an ordained minister who ranks immediately below a priest. In the Protestant churches, a deacon is in training to become a minister or is a lay assistant.
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In that period of ad hoc surnames, Lucas Cranach probably derived his name from Chranach, the deaconry of which Kronach ('Crowswater') was part; just as Philipp Schwarzerd (black earth) translated his name into Greek as Melanchthon, and Johannes Speissheimer from Schweinfurt called himself Cuspinian.
The prime of Lucas Cranach by Bruce, Donald / Contemporary Review
Each new Cardinal in order of their creation then approached the Pope and knelt before him to receive the red biretta and to be assigned a titular Church or deaconry.
George Cardinal Pell: creation of the seventh Cardinal of the ... by d'Apice, Richard / Journal of the Australian Catholic Historical Society
Not that they denied the reality of possession altogether: in the same year one woman appeared on the books of the deaconry as receiving alms because she was "being assaulted by Satan.
Possessed by the devil? A very public dispute in Utrecht by Kaplan, Benjamin J. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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