Definition of Subdeacons. Meaning of Subdeacons. Synonyms of Subdeacons

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Definition of Subdeacons

Subdeacon
Subdeacon Sub*dea"con, n. [Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L. subdiaconus.] (Eccl.) 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.

Meaning of Subdeacons from wikipedia

- and the three subdeacons receive the bishop's blessing and kiss his hands. The senior subdeacons return to the altar while the new subdeacon, still holding...
- are used today to allow subdeacons to marry. One approach has been to bless acolytes or readers to vest and act as subdeacons temporarily or permanently...
- these are needed by the bishop, the candlesticks are brought to him by subdeacons, who may also carry them during the Entrances. One of them may be carried...
- mitra simplex (simple white mitre). In the Roman Catholic Church the subdeacons wore a vestment called the tunicle, which was originally distinct from...
- apostolic subdeacon and then in Gr**** by the Byzantine Rite subdeacon, following the ritual of the Gr**** Church. After the Epistle, the two subdeacons went...
- in ancient times by both men and women. In the form worn by deacons, subdeacons, altar servers, and sometimes by readers, the sticharion is a long robe...
- subdeacons continued to wear the tunicle even from the sixth to the ninth centuries. The ceremony by which the bishop put a tunicle on a subdeacon whom...
- functions of an acolyte or taper-bearer are therefore carried out by readers, subdeacons, or by non-tonsured men or boys who are sometimes called "acolytes" informally...
- Hagia Sophia be strictly limited to 60 presbyters, 100 male deacons, 90 subdeacons, 110 lectors, 25 singers, 100 doorkeepers and 40 female deacons; 525 in...
- governed by their own particular law. In all Eastern Catholic Churches, subdeacons are minor clerics, since admission to major orders is by ordination as...