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2 unusual facts about Deacon


Deacon

As far as street clothing is concerned, immediately following his ordination the deacon receives a blessing to wear the Exorasson (Arabic: Jib'be, Slavonic: Riassa), an outer cassock with wide sleeves, in addition to the Anterion (Slavonic: Podraznik), the inner cassock worn by all orders of clergy.

The most famous holder of this title was Deacon Brodie who was a cabinet-maker and president of the Incorporation of Wrights and Masons as well as being a Burgh councillor of Edinburgh, but at night led a double life as a burglar.


Angus Dun

He was ordained a deacon May 17, 1917, and a priest November 20, 1917, by the Right Rev. William Lawrence, Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts.

Anianus

Anianus of Celeda, an early 5th-century deacon and supporter of Pelagius

Aventinus of Tours

Living the life of a hermit in Tours, France, before being ordained a deacon by St. Thomas Becket, and subsequently accompanied him to the Synod of Tours in 1163.

Barthélemy de Jur

Before becoming bishop of Laon, he was a sub-deacon then treasurer of the church of Reims, whose archbishop Manassès II de Châtillon was his maternal great-uncle.

Brett Deacon

On 19 December 2013, Deacon was forced to retire due to a diagnosis of lupus, an autoimmune disease which in his case led to potentially life-threatening blood clots; he was immediately placed on blood thinners.

Brian Victor Beck

Beck was licensed, prior to ordination, as a Sub-deacon at St Michael and All Angels, an Anglo-Catholic parish in Observatory, Cape Town.

Colin Lauder

The son of Dr George Lauder (1712–1752) a surgeon and fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, by his spouse Rosina Preston (d.1786), Colin Lauder was the great-great-grandson of Sir John Lauder, 1st Baronet, of Fountainhall and the grandson of Surgeon Dr John Lauder (1683-1737) deacon of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Deacon White

To top it all off, in the rough-and-tumble 19th-century baseball era, White really was a nonsmoking, Bible-toting, church-going deacon.

Donald Deacon

When his friend and political colleague Barney Danson was appointed Minister of Defence, Deacon worked with Danson and Jacques Hébert to create Katimavik, a national service program designed to enable unemployed youth help others and themselves at the same time.

Douglas Hahn

Testimonials at the episcopal ordination were presented by Ann Davis McClain, treasurer and interim secretary of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky; Buck Hinkle, Chancellor of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky; the Rev. Deacon Mary Kilborn-Huey, chair of the Commission on Ministry of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky; the Rev. Jan M. Cottrell, president of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Kentucky; and the Rt.

Edward Young Higbee

On July 9, 1829 he was ordained a deacon, and at once took charge of the parishes of St. John and St. George in Harford County, Maryland, his ministry being based in Havre de Grace.

Eucharius

According to an ancient legend, he was one of the seventy-two disciples of Christ, and was sent to Gaul by Saint Peter as bishop, together with the deacon Valerius and the subdeacon Maternus, to preach the Gospel.

Exsultet

Since the 1955 revision of the Holy Week rites, the Roman Missal explicitly gives the title "Praeconium" to the Exsultet, as it already did implicitly in the formula it provided for blessing the deacon before the chant: "ut digne et competenter annunties suum Paschale praeconium".

Francis Joseph Hall

Ordained a deacon at St. John's Chapel of Racine College on July 1, 1885, he was advanced to the priesthood in the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul on October 11, 1886 by the Rt.

Frank E. Gaebelein

During this time, he also served as an ordained deacon and presbyter at the Reformed Episcopal Church.

Heinz-Josef Fabry

Heinz-Josef Fabry (Winterberg, 14 December 1944) is a German Hebraist and deacon of the Catholic Theological Faculty of Bonn University.

Helmold

He became a deacon about 1150, and finally became a parish priest in 1156 at Bosau on Großer Plöner See.

Henry Bonney

He was ordained deacon in 1803 and priest in 1804, with a charge at Thurlby, in Lincolnshire.

Iserninus

He was originally named Fith, and he may have been ordained a deacon at Auxerre with Patrick and Auxilius.

John Doane

Nathaniel Morton wrote that John Cooke, Mr. John Doane and Mr. William Paddy were deacons under Reverend John Reyner, and John Dunham became a deacon later.

Kuriakose Mor Theophilos

He was ordained as Deacon by Mor Gregorios Geevarghese Metropolitan in 1989, as priest by the Catholicos of the East, Baselios Thomas I in 2002 and in 2003 he was ordained as metropolitan with the name Mor Theophilos.

Lay confession

As an example, the Anglican Church of Canada states, in the preface to its liturgical rite for "The Reconciliation of a Penitent", the following: "The absolution in these services may be pronounced only by a bishop or a priest. If a deacon or a lay person hears a confession, a declaration of forgiveness may be made in the form provided".

Lionel Gatford

He was ordained deacon at Peterborough on 24 December 1626, and was elected junior university proctor in 1631-2.

Little Gidding

The following year, in 1626, Nicholas Ferrar was ordained as a Deacon by William Laud (1573–1645) then Bishop of St David's and later Archbishop of Canterbury.

Lorcan Cranitch

He appeared in several other British television dramas, including Deacon Brodie (with Billy Connolly), Shackleton (as Frank Wild) with Kenneth Branagh, Omagh, Hornblower (with Ioan Gruffudd), The Street, Waking the Dead, Spooks, Silent Witness and New Tricks.

Made Katib

He started as a deacon on 22 September 1968 and a year later he was ordained a priest by the Diocese of Kuching’s first indigenous bishop, the Right Rev Datuk Basil Temenggong.

Mar Emmanuel Yosip

He became a deacon in 1981 and a priest in 1984 at Mar Gewargis, Assyrian Church in Chicago.

Martin Moller

He was ordained in 1572, despite never having been to university, and served as priest and deacon in Kesseldorf, Löwenberg and Sprottau.

Matthew Kellison

In August 1587 he received orders, probably those of sub-deacon, and in September 1589, the year of his advancement to the priesthood, was sent back to Rheims to succeed William Giffard as professor of scholastic theology.

Nathaniel Bowen

Bowen graduated from the College of Charleston in 1794; was ordained deacon in 1800 and priest in 1802.

Nathaniel Thayer

For a number of years, Thayer was involved in a dispute with James G. Carter, then-Deacon of Thayer's congregation and later a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, over the latter's refusal to return funds donated toward the establishment of an instructional academy that failed to materialise.

Our Lady of Victory Catholic School

The recognition came from the teachings of Deacon David Jones, whose 5th grade art class curriculum that school year was based on the works of noted artist Bob Ross, host of the American PBS television show The Joy of Painting.

Philip Down

Upon moving to the United Kingdom, Down became an associate Methodist minister and part-time chaplain at Scunthorpe General Hospital until 1989, in which year he was ordained as a deacon and then a priest of the Church of England.

Photinus

Photinus grew up in Ancyra in Galatia, where he was a student and later a deacon of bishop Marcellus.

Pontius of Carthage

He served as a deacon under Cyprian of Carthage and wrote the Vita Cypriani ("Life of Cyprian") shortly after Cyprian's death.

Prince-Bishopric of Liège

He was first appointed deacon of church of St Bartholomew and finally retired at the monastery of Cluny.

Proclaim!

The St. John Gualbert Television Ministry dates back to 1988 when Deacon John Sroka pitched the idea of a live hour long mass and launched it on Public-access television in Johnstown.

Robert Moncreiff, 3rd Baron Moncreiff

In 1870, Moncreiff was awarded BA and ordained a deacon at Lichfield when he became curate of Cubley, Derbyshire.

Robert Traill Spence Lowell

He was invited by Bishop Spencer, of Newfoundland, to go to Bermuda, where he was made deacon in December 1842, and priest in March 1843, and was also appointed domestic chaplain to the bishop and inspector of schools in the colony.

Roger Jupp

He was ordained deacon in 1980 and priest in 1981 and served as Assistant Curate of Newbold with Dunston (1980-83), Cowley St John (1983-85), and Islington St James with St Philip (1985-86).

Rupertus Meldenius

After a post as senior deacon in Kirchheim unter Teck, 1612, he was "Ephorus" of the Evangelical College of St. Anna in Augsburg.

Samuel Garbet

He was ordained as a deacon 22 Sept. 1706, and became curate of Great Nesse.

Semi-Arianism

He was the leader of a council at Sirmium in 351, held against Photinus who had been a deacon at Ancyra, and the canons of this synod begin by condemning Arianism, though they do not quite come up to the Nicene standard.

Shem Drowne

His short story, first published in 1844, recasts "Deacon Drowne" as a woodcarver who made trade signs and wooden figures for various shops and a notable statue of Admiral Edward Vernon in Boston.

Simeon Solomon

In Anthony Powell's novel A Buyer's Market (book 2 in A Dance to the Music of Time), the narrator says of the artist Mr. Deacon that Solomon was one of the few painters he admired.

Susan Deacon

In 2010, Deacon was appointed by Michael Russell, MSP, Cabinet Secretary for Education and Lifelong Learning as the Scottish Government's ‘Early Years Champion’.

The Voyage of the Uí Chorra

As a final act of contrition, on the advice of St. Coman of Kinvara, the keeper of the last church they repaired, the three brothers set out on an Atlantic Ocean voyage on a small boat (a currach), accompanied by five others (a bishop, a priest, a deacon, a musician and the craftsman who built the boat).

Théophane Vénard

Théophane Vénard studied at the College of Doué-la-Fontaine, Montmorillon, Poitiers, and at the Paris Seminary for Foreign Missions which he entered as a sub-deacon.

William Nicolson

After visiting Leipzig to learn German he was ordained as a deacon in 1679 and made Vicar of Torpenhow in 1681.He was also made prebendary of Carlisle Cathedral in 1681, and Archdeacon in 1682.

Zoudenbalch

In 1480 Evert was appointed Vice-Deacon of the Dom (vice-domdeken) and in 1482 he became Treasurer of the Dom; he surprisingly retained this key post until 1500 despite his active opposition to the Prince-Bishop David of Burgundy in the Civil War of 1481–1483.


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