diaconal

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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)

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

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)

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

Sixtus II., drawn with the lineaments of Nicholas V., consecrates to the diaconal office St. Laurence, who reverently kneeling extends both hands to receive the sacramental cup.

From Fra Angelico by Scott, Leader