Associations to the word «Subdeacon»

Wiktionary

SUBDEACON, noun. A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church.
SUBDEACON, noun. A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.

Dictionary definition

SUBDEACON, noun. 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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