subdeacon

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• For the person who holds the Missal for the presider (which is a role, IIRC, that used to be performed by subdeacons) to be close at hand so that there is not undue delay (haste is not a virtue, but the time involved should not call attention to itself, let's say).

  Blog text (4)

• The purpose of an altar boy in a low mass is to take the place of the deacon and subdeacon who would normally accompany the priest in a solemn high mass.

  Blog text (20)

• As written by the subdeacon Libuinus, a lot of miracles happened that day: "Now I shall tell of the wonderful things that it has pleased God to perform: at the hour when the Prelate gave up his soul to Christ, the bell of the church of St. Peter began to sound, though none of those present had touched it."

  Academic text (2004)

• In the Renaissance, the entire double Mass of the Dead and a solemn general mass with deacon and subdeacon were held for the suffrage of the countess and her ancestors as at the death.

  Academic text (1999)

• (Most of his churches, for example, have seats for the clergy in which the priest sits higher and closer to the altar than the deacon, who in turn sits higher and closer than the subdeacon.

  Blog text (27)

• In December, Dick was ordained a subdeacon in a church in Le Mans whose origins go back to the sixth century.

• Many of the services of the deacon were gradually absorbed into the priesthood or taken up by other orders: subdeacons, acolytes, doorkeepers.

• Previously, clerics in the Catholic Church passed through several stages on the way to priesthood, from the minor orders of porter, lector, exorcist, and acolyte to the major orders of subdeacon, deacon, and priest.

How Senior

archbishop

31 7.2

bishop

210 3.9

priest

∞ 1.0

deacon

31 7.4

subdeacon

• Literature

1 9.9

acolyte

• Specialized

4 9.2

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Etymology