subdeacon

/ˌˈsʌbˌˈdikən/
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Other forms: subdeacons

Definitions of subdeacon
  1. noun
    a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
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    type of:
    clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend
    a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of a Christian church
    Holy Order, Order
    (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy
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