Deacons may preside at funeral rites not involving a Mass ( e. g., the final commendation at the gravesite or the reception of the body at a service in the funeral home ), and may assist the priest at the Requiem Mass.

can be ordained as Deacons, whose principal duties are to assist the Priesthood.

United Methodist Elders and Deacons hold membership in the annual conference.

These include Elders, Deacons, Associate Members and licensed local pastors.

Today, the clergy includes men and women who are ordained by Bishops as Elders and Deacons and are appointed to various ministries.

: In every Church completely organized, that is, furnished with all the officers which Christ has instituted and which are necessary for carrying into full effect the laws of his kingdom, there ought to be three classes of officers, viz: at least one Teaching Elder, Bishop, or Pastor — a bench of Ruling Elders — and Deacons.

Two of the descendants of Elijah Abel were also ordained Elders, and two other black men, Samuel Chambers and Edward Leggroan, were ordained Deacons.

The spiritual leaders of certain Plymouth Brethren assemblies or meetings are termed " Elders " ( though this is never used as a title in any sense, particularly it is never used as a title of address ), and sometimes more practical leaders, called " Deacons ", are identified.

Elders and Deacons may not simply be defrocked by a Bishop, but only through ecclesiastical due process.

In the Reformed churches, a Consistory is a congregation's governing body of elected officials that include the Elders and the Deacons, thus making the body similar to the Session in Presbyterian churches.

Once put in place, Ministers, Deacons and Elders can only be removed of their position by death, voluntary retirement or in extreme cases by the national elder body.

The structure for the role of women in the Church at Ephesus is laid out as well as a detailed list of qualifications for who can and cannot serve as Elders and Deacons in the church.

) Concerning the election and duties of Ministers, Elders and Deacons, and Superintendent ;

Deacons may serve in a pastoral office and administer sacraments.

Deacons, like priests and bishops, are ordinary ministers of the sacrament of Baptism and can serve as the church's witness at the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, which the bride and groom administer to each other ( though if the exchange of vows takes place in a wedding Mass, or Nuptial Mass, the Mass is celebrated by the priest and the deacon acts as another witness ).

Holy orders, a Sacrament by which Bishops, Priests and Deacons are ordained and receive power and authority to perform their sacred duties.

These include Baptism, Confirmation ( into the Laity ), and Ordination ( for Deacons, Priests & Priestesses, and Bishops ), and Last Rites.

This group may variously be known as a ' Deacon Board ', ' Board of Deacons ' ' Diaconate ', or ' Deacons ' Court '.

Deacons are in service ministry and may serve as musicians, liturgists, educators, business administrators, and a number of other areas.

Deacons may have the title of hierodeacon ( a monk who has been ordained to the deaconate ), archdeacon or protodeacon.

Deacons may be addressed as Deacon or Father Deacon, honorary prelates as Monsignor ; bishops and archbishops as Your Excellency ( or Your Grace in Commonwealth countries ).

As a result, in some large wards, this means that there may be two or more Deacons Quorums.

Deacons also may receive fast offerings from the members on fast Sunday, and are the only persons aside from the members of the bishopric that are permitted to handle Church donations.

Deacons may also be elected to provide practical care.

According to Umoja it was the urging of Stokely Carmichael that the Deacons were to be used as security for the march.

After some debate and discussion many of the civil rights leaders compromised their strict non-violent beliefs and allowed the Deacons to be used.

Second, threats to the lives of Deacons ' members required that secrecy be maintained to avoid terrorist attacks on their supporters, and they recruited mature and male members, in contrast to other more informal self-defense efforts in which women and teenagers also played a role.

And no man is to be accepted as a lawful Bishop, Priest, or Deacon in this Church, or permitted to execute any functions pertaining to these Orders, except he be called, tried, examined, and admitted thereunto according to the Canons of this Church, and in accordance with the Order prescribed by this Church for making, Ordaining and Consecrating Bishops, Priests and Deacons, or hath had Episcopal Consecration or Ordination.

Deacons were not to be allowed to receive confessions or to provide penances, or to baptise except in the absence of a priest.

The NAACP were originally involved but pulled out on learning that the Deacons for Defense and Justice were going to be protecting the march.

If there are more than twelve Deacons in the ward, then multiple quorums are to be organized.

Deacons are to be sensitive to the spiritual, physical, and temporal needs of all individuals and families.

Many times the Deacons are not written about or cited when speaking of the Civil Rights Movement because their agenda of self-defense-in this case, using violence, if necessary-did not fit the image of strict non-violence that leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. espoused.

However, according to Lance Hill, author of The Deacons for Defense: Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement: “ the hard truth is that these organizations produced few victories in their local projects in the Deep South — if success is measured by the ability to force changes in local government policy and create self-governing and sustainable local organizations that could survive when the national organizations departed ....

Those who are found worthy by their bishop ( in an interview ) are ordained in a similar manner as Deacons, except that the Aaronic Priesthood is not conferred upon them again if they have already received it as a Deacon.

Wilson made up his mind that he must receive at least $2,500, but when he mentioned this to the Deacons they said nothing.

Some CORE main leadership had strong disagreements with the Deacons for Defense and Justice over the Deacons ' public threat to racist Southerners that they would use armed self-defense to protect CORE workers from racist organizations, such as the Ku Klux Klan, in Louisiana during the 1960s.

Carmichael speaks about the Deacons when he writes, “ Here is a group which realized that the ‘ law ’ and law enforcement agencies would not protect people, so they had to do it themselves ... The Deacons and all other blacks who resort to self-defense represent a simple answer to a simple question: what man would not defend his family and home from attack ?” The Deacons, according to Carmichael and many others were the protection that the Civil Rights needed on local levels, as well as, the ones who intervened in places that the state and federal government fell short.

Nonetheless, in some cases, their willingness to respond to violence with violence led to tension between the Deacons and the nonviolent civil rights workers whom they sought to protect.

This was the first time in the 20th century, as Lance Hill observes, “ an armed black organization had successfully used weapons to defend a lawful protest against an attack by law enforcement .” Hill gives as another example: “ In Jonesboro, the Deacons made history when they compelled Louisiana governor John McKeithen to intervene in the city ’ s civil rights crisis and require a compromise with city leaders — the first capitulation to the civil rights movement by a Deep South governor .”

Bishops, Priests, and Deacons are not commanded by God ’ s law to marry to abstain from marriage, therefore they are permitted to marry at their own discretion, as they shall judge the same to serve better to godliness.

Deacons set up chairs and prepare the chapel for meetings ; they also care for the members of the church in general and visit the sick in particular.

After an interview with the bishop, Deacons who are deemed worthy are ordained to the office of Teacher at the age of fourteen, whereupon they will become members of the Teachers Quorum.

Deacons, subdeacons and altar servers wear the sticharion at any service at which they are serving.

Deacons always wear the epimanikia whenever they vest.

The park was also the home field of the Demon Deacons baseball team until they opened Gene Hooks Stadium on campus in 1981.

Methodist Deacons ( male or female ) have a less strict dress code ; but they often wear dark blue clothing, and always wear the cross of their religious order.