Subdeacon

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Subdeacon \Sub*dea"con\, n. [Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L.
     subdiaconus.] (Eccl.)
     One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next
     interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor
     order in the Greek Church.
     [1913 Webster] Subdeaconry



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  subdeacon
       n : 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