Diaconate Definition

dī-ăkə-nĭt, -nāt
noun
The rank, office, or tenure of a deacon.
Webster's New World
A group or board of deacons.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Diaconate

Noun

Singular:
diaconate
Plural:
diaconates

Origin of Diaconate

  • Late Latin diāconātus from diāconus deacon deacon

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Diaconate Sentence Examples

  • The traditionary position of the diaconate as one of the "three orders" is here maintained.

  • In the first place he was ordained to the permanent diaconate in 1997.

  • In my nineteenth year I was admitted to the diaconate, in my thirtieth to the priesthood, both by the hands of the most reverend Bishop John (of Hexham), and at the bidding of Abbot Ceolfrid.

  • This ancient idea of the diaconate, ignored in the Roman Pontifical, has been restored in the English ordinal.

  • The minor orders, and even the subdiaconate and diaconate, are now regarded as no more than steps to the priesthood.

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Words Starting With

DDIDIA

Words Ending With

ETEATE

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