subdeacon meaning

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subdeacon (noun): 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.

Definition of subdeacon

  1. 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

    Type of: clergyman, Holy Order

Word lists: words starting with SU · words ending in ON · 9-letter words

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