deaconry
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See Deaconship.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
deanery
bishopric
rabbinate
clergy
cloth
priesthood
conclave
chaplain
archbishopric
curacy
primacy
presbytery
cardinalate
episcopacy
pastorate
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Silvester and Martin. citation Given the fact that there were only a dozen cardinals, Cardinal Benedetto was assigned the care (commenda) of the deaconry of S. Agata, and his old deaconry of S. Nicola in Carcere.
On 23 May a great meeting was held in the deaconry of St. Lucy, and Desiderius was again importuned to accept the papacy but persisted in his refusal, threatening to return to his monastery in case of violence.