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Subdeacon Moderate

Origin: Latin prefix sub-

Subdeacon has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

Definitions
Noun
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

2

A Catholic clerical rank in the major orders below that of a deacon.

See Also
high mass oblationary subdiaconate cleric epistle eucharist subdeaconry subdeaconship
Related Terms
Broader Terms (hypernyms)
clergyman Holy Order
Rhyming Words
con econ icon locon secon decon dacon opcon mâcon emcon picon racon ancon yacon macon alcon bacon recon lacon iacon
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