Definition of Deaconess. Meaning of Deaconess. Synonyms of Deaconess

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Definition of Deaconess

Deaconess
Deaconess Dea"con*ess, n. (Eccl.) A female deacon; as: (a) (Primitive Ch.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons. (b) (Ch. of Eng. and Prot. Epis. Ch.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop. (c) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

Meaning of Deaconess from wikipedia

- account of the heathen, but you may send a deaconess ... Also in many other matters the office of a deaconess is required." The bishop should look on the...
- and New England Deaconess Hospital (founded in 1896 by Methodist deaconesses). Among independent teaching hospitals, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
- Deaconess Hospital may refer to one of the following: Arizona Deaconess Hospital, Phoenix, Arizona Deaconess Hospital, South Side, Edinburgh Deaconess...
- overall health system. In February Deaconess announced that Memorial Hospital was to be an affiliate of Deaconess. Deaconess started to utilize a new artificial...
- minister and founder of Lutheran deaconess training. In 1836, he founded Kaiserswerther Diakonie, a hospital and deaconess training center. Together with...
- Deaconess Hospital was the name of several hospitals in St. Louis, Missouri. The Deaconess tradition began in 19th-century Europe when Theodor Fliedner...
- predecessor, Deaconess School of Nursing; its related organization, Deaconess Central Hospital; and the Deaconess tradition of service. The Deaconess tradition...
- offers of marriage, she dedicated her life to the church, serving as a deaconess. She would later become a friend of John Chrysostom. Her good works included...
- Evangelical Deaconess Hospital's four-story building on Chauncey Street continued to serve the Bushwick, Brooklyn neighborhood even after the hospital...
- neighboring Boston hospitals including the New England Deaconess Hospital (now Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center), and the New England Baptist Hospital...