Surplice
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A surplice is a liturgical vestment of Western Christianity. The surplice is in the form of a tunic of white linen or cotton fabric, reaching to the knees, with wide or moderately wide sleeves.
Seminarian vested in a pleated Roman-style surplice with lace inserts, holding a thurible.
An Anglican priest wearing a black cassock, white English-style surplice, academic hood, and black tippet as his choir dress.
The Death of St. Bede, the monastic clergy are wearing surplices over their cowls (original painting at St. Cuthbert's College, Ushaw).
Abbess Joanna van Doorselaer de ten Ryen, in choir dress. Waasmunster Roosenberg Abbey.
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.