Definition of "deaconship" []

• The position or role of a deacon. (noun)

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• ""The deaconship is a subordinate grade, an order of the ministry."
• "D. 1204) is cited as requiring that if the laying on of hands in the subdeaconship be omitted, it must be afterwards supplied (cap. 1, x, de sacr. non interand, 1. 6), but there seems no doubt that the word "deaconship" was in the original text (Correct."
• "Apparently Cheerie is going bananas as the pontiff has only offered him a deaconship."