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deacon

/'dikən/

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noun
a Protestant layman who assists the minister
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protestant deacon

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church officer
noun
a cleric ranking just below a priest in Christian churches; one of the Holy Orders
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holy order clergyman order reverend man of the cloth

Definition that contains deacon

deaconess a woman deacon
archidiaconal of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
archidiaconate office or position of an archdeacon
archdeaconry the territorial jurisdiction of an archdeacon
subdeacon 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