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Never before had his deaconship been heard to swear.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

The deaconship was, next election, bestowed upon Treasurer Kerr.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 5 by Various

But Calphurnius first served God a long time in the deaconship, and at length closed his days in the priesthood.

From The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings by O'Leary, James

They might possess spiritual gift independently altogether of their deaconship.

From The Assembly of God Miscellaneous Writings of C. H. Mackintosh, volume III by Mackintosh, C. (Charles) H. (Henry)

First the tonsure, then Minor Orders, then subdeaconship, then deaconship, then priesthood.

From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Kinkead, Thomas L.