Deacon
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A deacon is a member of the diaconate, an office in Christian churches that is generally associated with service of some kind, but which varies among theological and denominational traditions.
Saint Stephen, one of the first seven deacons in the Christian Church, holding a Gospel Book in a 1601 painting by Giacomo Cavedone.
Ornately embroidered dalmatic, the proper vestment of the deacon, shown from the back with an appareled amice.
A Catholic deacon wearing his dalmatic and biretta.
Greek Orthodox deacon in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, wearing an orarion over his sticharion. On his head he wears the clerical kamilavka.
The sacrament of holy orders in the Catholic Church includes three orders of men: bishops, priests, and deacons, in decreasing orders of rank, collectively comprising the clergy. In the phrase "holy o
Priests lay their hands on the ordinands during a Catholic rite of ordination.
Group photograph of an Irish family marking the ordination of a Fr. Burke in 1926
Prostration rite during the ordination of deacons of the Community of Saint Martin, Evron Abbey (2025)
Romanian Greek Catholic priest from Romania with his family.