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Subdeacon

noun
1.
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.





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"Subdeacon" Quotes from Famous Books



... child were heard two days afterwards by some travellers, and Germain Rou, condemned to have his hand cut off and then be hanged, was pardoned. In 1535 an even more flagrant crime is registered against an ecclesiastic. Louis de Houdetot, a subdeacon, had been so successful in his courtship of Madame Tilleren, that the lady's husband sent her out of the town to her father's house. But this did not stop the priest from continuing to visit her, and while M. Tilleren was in Rouen news was brought ...
— The Story of Rouen • Sir Theodore Andrea Cook


Words linked to "Subdeacon" :   order, man of the cloth, clergyman, holy order, reverend


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