Sentences with phrase «at diaconate»

The first persecution had struck only at the diaconate.

Sixteen years ago at diaconate ordination, a youngish seminarian made his promise of celibacy.

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Add to this that the possibilities of the permanent diaconate of married men of mature age have not been at all exhausted.

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

Thus in place of three basic, though overlapping ministries of the primitive church (sometimes concurrently discharged by the same person) we found at the end of the two centuries of evolution three main orders of the clergy: the episcopate, the priesthood, and the diaconate and an ever - growing series of lower orders.