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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
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
archidiaconal of or relating to an archdeacon or his office
archidiaconate office or position of an archdeacon