bis " (" John XIV the second ") and it was confused with a historic character, the cardinal deacon John son of Robert, who opposed Boniface VII after John XIV's death.

This supposed first John XIV never existed, rather he was confused with a certain cardinal deacon John, son of Robert, who was opposed to Boniface VII and is now excluded from the papal lists.

He became deacon in 740, and was ordained priest by Boniface in 747.

On the death of Liberius on 24 September 366, one faction supported Ursinus ( or Ursicinus ), who had served as deacon to Liberius, while another faction, previously loyal to the Antipope Felix II, supported Damasus.

Lawrence of Rome, his best-known deacon, suffered martyrdom on 10 August, 3 days after his bishop, as Sixtus had prophesied.

With the corpse propped up on a throne, a deacon was appointed to answer for the deceased pontiff, who was condemned for performing the functions of a bishop when he had been deposed and for receiving the pontificate while he was the bishop of Porto, among other revived charges that had been leveled against Formosus in the strife during the pontificate of John VIII.

The propositions drawn up by the deacon Paulinus of Milan, on account of which Caelestius had been condemned at Carthage in 411, were laid before him.

After Leo IV, Pope Nicholas I, who had been made a deacon by Leo IV, decreed that the figure of the cock ( rooster ) should be placed on every church.

Felicissimus, who had been ordained deacon by the presbyter Novatus during the absence of Cyprian, opposed all steps taken by Cyprian's representatives.

He would then be the deacon John who signed the acta of the Roman synod of 499 and 502 ; the fact the Roman church only had seven deacons at the time makes identifying him with this person very likely.

By 1225, he had gained the benefice of Abbotsley in the diocese of Lincoln by which time he was a deacon.

At some unspecified time he had been made deacon by John Aylmer, Bishop of London, and priest by Thomas Cooper, Bishop of Lincoln ; but before long he renounced this ordination as " wholly unlawful.

He had been ordained deacon, but did not proceed to priest's orders for many years.

When the moment arrived for the recitation of the names of the defunct bishops from the diptychs, the multitude closed in silence about the holy table ; and when the deacon had read the new insertions, a mighty shout arose, " Glory be to Thee, O Lord!

Having returned to Alexandria, Arius, according to a single source, sided with Meletius of Lycopolis in his dispute over the readmission of those who had denied Christianity under fear of Roman torture, and was ordained a deacon under the latter's auspices.

: Top Curia official Renato Martino, a cardinal deacon and President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, attacked the way Saddam Hussein was treated by his captors, saying he had been dealt with like an animal.

Bobbi has been famously quoted as saying, “ Well, come to our house, and tell me which four I shouldn ’ t have had !” The family continues to attend a Baptist church in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Kenny serves as a deacon.

Women had been admitted to the offices of deacon and elder in 1972.

Another historical difference is that an Anglican transitional deacon had to first be a graduate of an approved seminary, theological college or distance education program.

On 27 October 1457 he took part in the trial and condemnation for heresy of Reginald Pecock, bishop of Chichester, who had been ordained subdeacon and deacon on the same day and by the same bishop as Waynflete himself.

Although not yet ordained, Gerard was rewarded with the Bishopric of Hereford, and he was consecrated by Archbishop Anselm on 8 June 1096 ; his ordination as a deacon and priest had taken place the previous day.

The parish had a priest to lead Mass, but most of the administrative work was handled by a lay woman minister, the wife of a former U. S. Representative who is a deacon.

" Little Melvin " Williams, a Baltimore drug lord arrested in the 1980s by an investigation that Ed Burns had been part of, had a recurring role as a deacon beginning in the third season.

While traveling to visit family in western New York, Pratt had the opportunity to read a copy of the Book of Mormon owned by a Baptist deacon.

He had been ordained as a deacon of York in 1681 and was Vicar of Merrington in County Durham from 1682 to 1720.

In Gregory ’ s day, history was not recognized as an independent field of study ; it was a branch of grammar or rhetoric, and historia ( defined as ‘ story ’) summed up the approach of the learned when they wrote what was, at that time, considered ‘ history .’ Gregory ’ s Dialogues Book Two, then, an authentic medieval hagiography cast as a conversation between the Pope and his deacon Peter, is designed to teach spiritual lessons.

In October 1150, Pope Eugene III created him cardinal deacon with the Title of Santi Cosma e Damiano.

Born the son of a priest, he was ordained as a deacon by Pope Nicholas I.

In the time of Pope Gregory I, he was a deacon of the Roman Church and held the position of dispensator, that is, the first official in connection with the administration of the patrimonies.

He was born into the noble Orsini family in Rome, though he was only a cardinal deacon before becoming Pope.

Callixtus was the deacon to whom Pope Zephyrinus entrusted the burial chambers along the Appian Way.

Pope Paschal II made him a cardinal deacon.

He then accompanied Abbot Bruno of Toul to Rome ; there, Bruno was elected Pope, choosing the name Leo IX, and named Hildebrand as deacon and papal administrator.

He was the last non-priest ( only a deacon ) to be elected Pope.

By 431, as a deacon, he occupied a sufficiently important position for Cyril of Alexandria to apply to him in order that Rome's influence should be thrown against the claims of Juvenal of Jerusalem to patriarchal jurisdiction over Palestine — unless this letter is addressed rather to Pope Celestine I.

He became a monk of Monte Cassino, was taken to Rome by Pope Urban II, and made papal subdeacon ( August 1088 ) and cardinal deacon of Santa Maria in Cosmedin ( probably on 23 September 1088 ).

He first served as a Roman deacon and was frequently employed by his brother, Pope Stephen II, in negotiations with the Lombard kings.

His contemporary Hegesippus wrote that he was a deacon of the Roman Church under Pope Anicetus ( c. 154 – 164 ), and remained so under Pope Soter, whom he succeeded in about 174.

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He was made a cardinal deacon ( possibly around 640 ) and a full cardinal by Pope John IV.

While a deacon in Rome, he is known to have been a partisan of the Antipope Laurentius, for in a libellus written to Pope Symmachus in 506, John confessed his error in opposing him, anathematized Peter of Altinum and Laurentius, and begged pardon of Symmachus.

Pope John I is depicted in art as looking through the bars of a prison or imprisoned with a deacon and a subdeacon.

Constantine's successor Pope Gregory II accompanied him to Constantinople as a deacon.

Also accompanying Constantine was the future Pope Gregory II, then a deacon, and another Latin subdeacon Julian.

He was made a subdeacon by Pope Sergius II ( 844 – 847 ) and a deacon by Leo IV ( 847 – 855 ).

The parts that are said aloud are all chanted, except that the Prayers at the Foot of the Altar, which before the reform of Pope Pius V were said in the sacristy, are said quietly by the bishop with the deacon and the subdeacon, while the choir sings the Introit.