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Subdeacon

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Noun

1. subdeacon

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Subdeacon

see synonyms of subdeacon
noun mainly Roman Catholic Church
1. 
a cleric who assists at High Mass
2. 
(formerly) a person ordained to the lowest of the major orders

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Subdeacon

see synonyms of subdeacon
noun
1.  Roman Catholic Church; Obsolete
a cleric ranking just below a deacon
2.  Eastern Christian Church
a cleric ranking just above a lector

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Subdeacon

see synonyms of subdeacon
n.
1. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a cleric ranking just below a deacon.
2. In the traditional rite of the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric who acts as assistant to the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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