Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or concerning a deacon or the diaconate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a deacon; of the nature of a deacon's duties: as, the diaconal office; diaconal ministrations.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a deacon.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a
deacon or thediaconate lay clergy .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It almost certainly had something to do with the epiphany I had about halfway through the meeting . . . which is that I may be able to see a path to ordination after all, if I can be ordained to a very particular kind of diaconal ministry within the diocese.
Archive 2007-02-01 Susan Palwick 2007
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It almost certainly had something to do with the epiphany I had about halfway through the meeting . . . which is that I may be able to see a path to ordination after all, if I can be ordained to a very particular kind of diaconal ministry within the diocese.
Epiphanies Susan Palwick 2007
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Thanks to Gregor Kollmorgen for the translation of the Braun excerpts from German to English and for also highlighting the matter of the diagonal wearing of the diaconal stole and how that may be related to the planeta plicata.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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In other words, Braun is suggesting that the form of wearing the diaconal stole that we are so familiar with today -- on an angle, worn from the left shoulder to the right hip -- is actually a result (and now the only remnant) of the tradition of the folded chasuble when the stole was wound up with the folded chasuble in that manner.
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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The College of Cardinals is divided into three orders: the episcopal order, to which belong those Cardinals to whom the Roman Pontiff assigns the title of a suburbicarian Church, and eastern-rite Patriarchs who are made members of the College of Cardinals; the presbyteral order, and the diaconal order.
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The Passions are sung by three deacons, dressed in amice, alb, cincture, maniple and diaconal stole; they are not the major ministers of the Mass itself.
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John Sonnen of Orbis Catholicus was recently in attendance at the diaconal ordinations held in this Church during the past week.
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Additionally, as has already been mentioned, the deacon would wear the broad stole, which was worn over top of his normal diaconal stole when the planeta plicata was taken off. (see p. 245-6, 8th edition of Fortescue)
Use, History and Development of the "Planeta Plicata" or Folded Chasuble 2009
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We thought we could go one step further and become one congregation, said Pamela Harrington, diaconal minister.
Dancing the Clergy Conga in Orillia « Anglican Samizdat 2009
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As I wrote in a personal letter to His Beatitude last November, we in the Church of England deeply appreciate the way in which he opened the way towards fuller co-operation in the diaconal and missionary work of our churches.
Archbishop's tribute to His Beatitude Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece 2008
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