The role of deacons/deaconesses is different in the early church then now. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This "powerful arm of Christian work" not only rescues helpless little ones from degradation and misery; it undertakes the special training of the workers amongst the children in industrial homes and orphanages; and hence has arisen the institution in 1895 of the order of Methodist deaconesses, which is recommended by ❋ Annie E. Keeling (N/A)
On this account I believed it the more necessary to find out from two maid-servants, who were called deaconesses ❋ Joseph Cullen Ayer (1905)
By some Church fathers widows were called deaconesses, and deaconesses widows. ❋ Unknown (1889)
During Fliedner's life-time occasions arose which called the deaconesses outside their accustomed fields of work, and proved their value in the exceptional emergencies that so often arise. ❋ Unknown (1889)
For these reasons, I the more thought it necessary to investigate the real truth, by putting to the torture two maidens who were called deaconesses; but I discovered nothing, but a perverse and excessive superstition. ❋ Anne C. Lynch Botta (1853)
This garbage, ranging from the "deaconesses" to Mary Magdalen to the Gnostics, was all the rage in the 1970s and early 1980s (before Ratzinger got control of any offices, I suspect!) and was disproved and ridiculed 30-40 years ago. ❋ Beliefnet (2010)
This garbage, ranging from the "deaconesses" to Mary Magdalen to the Gnostics, was all the rage in the 1970s and early ❋ Beliefnet (2010)
"deaconesses," Mary Magdalen and the Gnostics are hardly considered "garbage" by many millions of people. ❋ Beliefnet (2010)
Christian women, Euodia [1] and Syntyche, evidently well-known Church members, possibly officials, "deaconesses," like Phoebe (Rom. xvi. ❋ Unknown (1880)
Some served under the name of "deacon," but this was to accommodate the baptism of adult females and in any event these "deaconesses" did not receive holy orders. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Latin rituals for ordaining deaconesses exist from as late as the 10th century, but the precise sacramental nature of these ordinations has not yet been determined authoritatively. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Some were even admitted to the Church hierarchy, appointed as deaconesses who could assist with the private instruction of female worshippers.34 ❋ Annelise Freisenbruch (2010)
What I remember comes in pieces, like the soft doughy squares of bread my father served at communion in the Baptist church, the crust carefully cut away by deaconesses. ❋ Unknown (2009)
This made me decide it was all the more necessary to extract the truth by torture from two slave-women, whom they call deaconesses. ❋ Unknown (2009)
[She a] great [deaconess] !
Deacon-ness [pronunciation]. ❋ House Of Yahweh (2023)
