In 1899 Schweitzer became a deacon at the church Saint-Nicolas of Strasbourg.

He was first deacon of church of St Bartholomew in his native Liège and was then appointed ( c. 1100 ) to St. Lambert's Cathedral.

The year after his marriage Cuyp became the deacon of the reformed church.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

Additionally Phoebe was a deacon of the church in Cenchreae, a port to the east of Corinth, and would have been able to convey the letter to Rome after passing through Corinth and taking a ship from Corinth ’ s west port.

* προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου της εν Κεγχρεαις εκκλησιας (" to the Romans it was written from Corinth by Phoebus the deacon of the church in Cenchreae "): 101, 241, 460, 466, 469, 602, 603, 605, 618, 1923, 1924, 1927, 1932, followed by Textus Receptus.

A detailed but spurious account of Ignatius ' arrest and his travails and martyrdom is the material of the Martyrium Ignatii which is presented as being an eyewitness account for the church of Antioch, and as if written by Ignatius ' companions, Philo of Cilicia, deacon at Tarsus, and Rheus Agathopus, a Syrian.

His father was primarily a farmer though he was also deacon of the local Congregational church, captain of the town's militia, and a founder of a local book society — a precursor to the public library.

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.

Most Baptists believe in " Two offices of the church "— pastor-elder and deacon — based on certain scriptures (; ).

It is generally believed that the office of deacon originated in the selection of seven men, among them Stephen, to assist with the charitable work of the early church as recorded in.

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.

The earliest writings of the Apostolic Fathers, the Didache and the First Epistle of Clement for example, show the church used two terms for local church offices — presbyters ( seen by many as an interchangeable term with episcopos or overseer ) and deacon.

Job Lane ( 3 ) was a church deacon and also a town officer.

He made his home in Roosevelt, Oklahoma, where he was a deacon of the church and headed up the business affairs of the cemetery there after he retired from teaching.

A young deacon of the church, in contravention of the pastoral letter, invited Abby Kelley to speak to the congregation against slavery.

Benjamin was also a deacon in the Baptist church and participated in municipal government ( as an avowed Democrat ).

On 16 December 1555, and again in December 1556, Whittingham was elected an elder of the church at Geneva ; on 16 December 1558 he was appointed deacon, and in 1559 he succeeded Knox as minister.

Nevertheless, Froude was ordained deacon in 1845, initially intending to help reform the church from within.

Filings for complete finger-nail trimmers ( not merely improvements ) include, in 1881, Eugene Heim and Celestin Matz, in 1885, George H. Coates ( for a finger-nail cutter ), and, in 1905, Chapel S. Carter ( son of a Connecticut Baptist church deacon ) patented a finger-nail trimmer with a later patent in 1922.

" Once the procession concludes, the deacon or a cantor chants the Exultet ( also called the " Easter Proclamation "), and, the church remaining lit only by the people's candles and the Paschal candle, the people take their seats for the Liturgy of the Word.

He was a deacon in his church until well into his dotage, was a member of the Young Women's Christian Association advisory board from 1913 until his death, was Edmonton's first exalted ruler of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and spent three years as the grand exalted ruler of the Elk Order of Canada.

He was ordained deacon 16 June and priest 22 December 1633.

He was also active as deacon and elder of the Reformed Church, and a member of the high court of Holland.

At first a gnostic Valentinian and Marcionist, Ambrose, through Origen's teaching, eventually rejected this theology and became Origen's constant companion, and was ordained deacon.

At the time, he was a deacon and personal secretary of the 19th Bishop of Alexandria, Alexander.

He was ordained a deacon by the contemporary patriarch, Alexander of Alexandria, in 319.

In about 319, when Athanasius was a deacon, a presbyter named Arius came into a direct conflict with Alexander of Alexandria.

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 about 692, in Bede's nineteenth year, Bede was ordained a deacon by his diocesan bishop, John, who was bishop of Hexham.

The canonical age for the ordination of a deacon was 25 ; Bede's early ordination may mean that his abilities were considered exceptional, but it is also possible that the minimum age requirement was often disregarded.

St. Cyril was ordained a deacon by Bishop St. Macarius of Jerusalem in about 335 and a priest some eight years later by Bishop St. Maximus.

After Luther's death, Alberus was for a time a deacon in Wittenberg ; he became involved, however, in the political conflicts of the time, and was in Magdeburg in 1550-1551, while that town was besieged by Maurice of Saxony.

* προς Ρωμαιους εγραφη απο Κορινθου δια Φοιβης της διακονου (" to the Romans it was written from Corinth by Phoebus the deacon "): 42, 90, 216, 339, 462, 466 *, 642 ;

306 – 373 ) was a Syriac deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer and theologian of the 4th century.

He was ordained as a deacon either at his baptism or later.

The deacon, or in his absence, the priest himself then dismisses the people, choosing one of four formulas, of which the first is " Ite, missa est " in Latin or its equivalent in other languages.

Governments have generally recognized that Jehovah's Witnesses ' full-time appointees qualify as ministers regardless of sex or appointment as an elder or deacon (" ministerial servant "); the religion itself asserts what is sometimes termed " ecclesiastical privilege " only for its appointed elders.

According to a contemporary letter from Alcuin of York, an English deacon and scholar who spent over a decade at Charlemagne's court as one of his chief advisors, " the vengeance of the blood shed by the father has reached the son "; and Alcuin adds " This was not a strengthening of the kingdom, but its ruin.

It takes its name from the deacon Saint Callixtus, proposed by Pope Zephyrinus in the administration of the same cemetery-on his accession as pope, he enlarged the complex, that quite soon became the official one for the Roman Church.

Though the Chronicle of Alfonso III in both its extant versions makes Bermudo out to be a deacon at his succession, this fact would only reinforce the notion that his election was a determined move to oppose Alfonso.

However, his election was soon subject to doubts concerning its canonicity, as he was not yet a deacon.

As is still done in papal Masses on occasions such as the inauguration of a pontificate, the Gospel and Epistle were sung not only in Latin by a Latin-Rite deacon and subdeacon, but also in Greek by Eastern clergy, wearing the vestments of their own rite and observing its customs, such as placing the deacon's stole on the Gospel Book and bowing rather than genuflecting.

In its more traditional form, the ministers required at the service are a deacon and subdeacon of the Mass, assistant deacons in dalmatics, and an assistant priest in cope and surplice, who acts as the episcopal chaplain, along with the usual servers.

In the Byzantine rite the liturgical office for the laying-on of hands for the deaconess is exactly parallel to that for the deacon ; and so on the principle lex orandi, lex credendi — the Church's worshipping practice is a sure indication of its faith — it follows that the deaconesses receives, as does the deacon, a genuine sacramental ordination: not just a ( chirothesia ) but a ( chirotonia ).

The Roman Catholic Church in its Latin Rite traditionally distinguished between the major orders ( holy orders ) of bishop, priest, deacon and subdeacon, and four minor orders, that of acolyte, exorcist, lector and porter ( in descending sequence ).

A deacon named John Troyer learned of the legend, and reputedly using divination, acquired knowledge of its exact location.

Since the fourth century, Salona honored in its large basilicas its glorious martyrs from the times of Diocletian's persecution: St. Domnius ( Latin: Domnius ; Croatian: Duje ; Italian: Domnio ), craftsman Anastasius the Fuller, deacon Septimia, priest Asteria and others.

At High Mass the priest intones the opening phrase, while the deacon and subdeacon stand behind him ; then they join him at the altar and together with him quietly recite the rest of the hymn, after which they sit down and wait for the choir to finish its singing of the same text.

Since the deacon wears a more elaborate sticharion as an outer garment, its large winged sleeves are not bound by epimanikia ; rather he wears the epimanikia underneath, tied to his endorrason ( inner cassock ) ( Russian: подрясник, podryasnik ).

the candle bearer places the paschal candle in its stand, the cantor, deacon, or assisting minister turns to face the people and chants the Exsultet.

Cuthbert sent his deacon Cynebert to Pope Gregory III after the council with a report on the council and its resolutions.

Around 1690 the Germantown Mennonite congregation elected William Rittenhouse as its first preacher and Jan Neuss as a deacon.