Deaconess definition

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A laywoman serving as assistant to a Protestant minister.
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Used as a title prefixed to the surname of such a woman.

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In some Protestant denominations, a woman consecrated or commissioned to serve in a church-related agency or hospital.
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A female servant in the early Christian church.
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Singular:
deaconess
Plural:
deaconesses

Origin of deaconess

  • deacon +‎ -ess

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Deaconess Sentence Examples

  • It has received the sanction of Convocation, and the Lambeth Conference in 1897 declared that it "recognized with thankfulness the revival of the office of deaconess," though at the same time it protested against the indiscriminate use of the title and laid it down emphatically that the name must be restricted to those who had been definitely set apart by the bishop for the position and were working under the direct supervision and control of the ecclesiastical authority in the parish.

  • Among the charitable institutions are the Dayton state hospital (for the insane), the Miami Valley and the St Elizabeth hospitals, the Christian Deaconess, the Widows' and the Children's homes, and the Door of Hope (for homeless girls); and 1 m.

  • In the middle ages the order fell into abeyance in both divisions of the Church, the abbess taking the place of the deaconess.

  • In 1861 Bishop Tait set apart Miss Elizabeth Ferard as a deaconess by the laying on of hands, and she became the first president of the London Deaconess Institution.

  • Among the hospitals are a state hospital for the insane, the Erie county, the Buffalo general, the Children's, the United States marine (maintained by the Federal government), the German, the Homeopathic, the Women's, the German Deaconess and the Riverside hospitals, and the Buffalo hospital of the Sisters of Charity.

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