deacon
IPA: dˈikʌn
noun
- (Christianity) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
- (Christianity) By extension, a modern day member of a church who handles secular and/or administrative duties in a priest's stead, the specifics of which depends on denomination.
- (Orthodoxy, Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
- (Protestantism) Free Churches: A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
- (Protestantism) Anglicanism: An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
- (Protestantism) Methodism: A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
- (Freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
- (Mormonism) The lowest office in the Aaronic priesthood, generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
- (US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually deaconed (see below).
- (Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
- A surname originating as an occupation.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
verb
- (Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
- (US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
- (US, slang) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
- (US, slang) To make sly alterations to the boundaries of (land); to adulterate or doctor (an article to be sold), etc.
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Examples of "deacon" in Sentences
- Coady ordained arnke as a deacon.
- But there was no sign of the deacon.
- A Deacon is a junior officer in the lodge.
- A transitional deacon is training for priesthood.
- I beseech the pastor, elders and deacons to pray for me.
- The deacons bring the offerings to the bishop at the altar.
- He performed the role of the Deacon in the Waterworld Stunt Show.
- The deacon and sub deacon should be holding the ends of the cope.
- Nicolas the deacon of the Seven Deacons was a proselyte of Antioch.
- The bishop is responsible for the ordination of ministers and deacons.
- Their work is, _to serve tables_, (hence the name deacon seems derived,)
- A deacon is a cleric ranking just below a priest and two steps below a Lama.
- But it is not clear that Hegesippus here uses the word deacon in its strictly technical sense.
- Laurentius, a Christian deacon, is said to have been martyred by the Romans in 258 AD on an iron outdoor stove.
- The young deacon is question has a donor who will provide funds for the purchase -- price dependent it goes without saying.
- Goths and Lombards, as stated by Paul Warnefrid, surnamed the deacon, is attacked by Cluverius, (Germania, Antiq.l. iii. c.
- As he returns from the sacristy, the deacon is preceded by two acolytes, and accompanied by two others carrying lighted candles.
- While the word deacon is Greek for minister, and to minister is to serve, the word is otherwise translated as "deacon" or "minister" when it refers to men.
- Among the Lutherans, however, in Germany, the word deacon is generally applied to assistant, though fully ordained, ministers who aid the minister in charge of a particular cure or parish.
- A third term, diakonos (from which comes our word deacon), is the one usually employed in relation to the ministry of the gospel: its application is twofold, -- in a general sense to indicate ministers of any order, whether superior or inferior, and in a special sense to indicate an order of inferiors ministers.