subdiaconate

Speech parts

1. subdiaconate - Noun

2. subdiaconate - Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to a subdeacon, or to the office or rank of a subdeacon.

The office or rank of a subdeacon.

Examples

Orthodox clergy who marry must do so prior to ordination to the subdiaconate (or diaconate, according to local custom) and typically one is either tonsured a monk or married before ordination. Source: Internet

Since 1972 the minor orders and the subdiaconate have been replaced by lay ministries and clerical tonsure no longer takes place, except in some Traditionalist Catholic groups, and the clerical state is acquired, even in those groups, by Holy Orders. Source: Internet

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