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 assist Elders in the sacraments of Holy Communion and Baptism, and may be granted sacramental authority if they are appointed as the pastor in a local church.

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 ).

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

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 serve in a pastoral office and administer sacraments.

Deacons may also be elected to provide practical care.

The Doctrine and Covenants states that a president of a Deacons Quorum can preside over no more than twelve members.

The president of the Deacons Quorum is given priesthood keys to preside over the members of his quorum.

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

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 ).

: 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.

UNC has been very successful at college basketball and women ’ s soccer, and a passion for these sports has been a distinctive feature of the town's culture, fueled by the rivalry among North Carolina's four ACC teams: the North Carolina Tar Heels, the Duke Blue Devils, the NC State Wolfpack, and the Wake Forest Demon Deacons.

By January 1965 the group had arrived at is permanent name, ‘ Deacons for Defense and Justice .’” The organization wanted to maintain a level of respectability and identify with traditionally accepted symbols of peace and moral values.

The Deacons had a relationship with other civil rights groups that advocated and practiced non-violence: the willingness of the Deacons to provide low-key armed guards facilitated the ability of groups such as the NAACP and CORE to stay, at least formally, within their own parameters of non-violence.

The Deacons ’ campaigns frequently resulted in substantial and unprecedented victories at the local level, producing real power and self-sustaining organizations .” According to Hill, this is the true resistance that enforced civil rights in areas of the Deep South.

In the year before Duncan's arrival at Wake Forest, the Demon Deacons reached the Sweet 16, but then lost main scorer Rodney Rogers, who entered the 1993 NBA Draft.

Though he was offered coaching positions at other schools, Grobe chose to remain with the Deacons, citing a desire to remain at an institution that successfully balances high-level academics with a major athletic program.

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.

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.

Had he survived Pope John Paul II, who delivered the homily at his funeral-the last while John Paul was alive -, Cardinal Schotte would, as the senior member of the order of Cardinal Deacons under the age of 80, have made the announcement of the next Pope's election.

He played college soccer at Wake Forest University for the Demon Deacons from 2002 to 2004, where he started all sixty-two games the team played during his tenure, scoring one goal and registering two assists.

A Deacons Quorum is a quorum consisting of up to twelve members of at least twelve years of age, ordained to the office of Deacon.

Deacons Quorums are organized at the ward level and act under the direction of the ward Bishop — who is the Aaronic Priesthood president — who calls a Deacons Quorum President who holds keys to direct the work of the quorum.

The ballpark is located at 401 Deacon Boulevard, directly east of BB & T Field, home of the Wake Forest University " Demon Deacons " football team.

The New Apostolic Church ( NAC ) knows three classes of ministries: Deacons, Priests and Apostles.

Deacons serve under the supervision of the elders, and are often assigned to direct specific ministries.

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.

Likewise each Deacon in full connection is a member of their Annual Conference Order of Deacons.

Deacons should give leadership, preach the Word, contribute in worship, conduct marriages, bury the dead, and aid the church in embodying it's mission within the world.

Deacons serve a term of 2 – 3 years as provisional Deacons prior to their ordination.

The exact relationship between male and female Deacons varies.

* Deacons are styled as The Reverend, The Reverend Deacon, or The Reverend Mr / Mrs / Miss.

In the mid-1960s, Bogalusa was a center of activity for the Deacons for Defense and Justice.

A group of black men organize a chapter of the Deacons for Defense — a secret armed self-defense group.

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

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Transitional Deacons belonging to religious orders ( monastic and non-monastic ) are titled Reverend Brother, ( similar situations and modifications apply to Anglican deacons as in The Rev.

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