subdeacon
Noun
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Noun
subdeacon (plural subdeacons)
- (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon.
- (Catholicism, chiefly historical) A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
- (Eastern Christianity) The highest of the minor orders below that of a deacon
- French: sous-diacre
- German: Subdiakon
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