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n. A cleric ranking just below a deacon.

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

n. A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church.

n. A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.

n. 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.

n. A member of the ecclesiastical order next below that of deacon.

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

"Ancient ecclesiastical monuments and documents lead us to believe that a subdeacon was a sort of head-acolyte or arch-acolyte, holding the same relation to the acolytes as the archdeacon to deacons, with this difference, however, that there was only one archdeacon, while there was a deacon for each region."

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