diaconal

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The executive business of Christian Brethren is managed by deacons; but the diaconal stage has not yet been reached in Preston.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

The widows were soon entrusted with diaconal tasks connected with the worship, and received a corresponding respect.

From History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) by Buchanan, Neil

He took diaconal orders in 1791, but almost immediately became professor of classics at Breslau.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

Arthur Masterman had long ago come to regard those diaconal high teas with a kind of sombre merriment.

From Masterman and Son by Dawson, W. J. (William James)

But the great community with its common table, its diaconal services, its varied exercises, ceased from that time, and was never reformed upon its first model.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)