subdeacon (redirected from subdeacons)

sub·dea·con  (sb-dkn)

n.

1. A cleric ranking just below a deacon.

2. A cleric who acts as assistant to the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.

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subdeacon - a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend - a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church Holy Order, Order - (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order"