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« on: January 12, 2012, 07:08:47 PM »
What is a Sub-Deacon?  What sort of duties would a Sub-Deacon perform as apposed to a Deacon? Are they vested? Are they ordained?



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« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2012, 07:21:38 PM »
Subdeacons (or ipodeacons) are tonsured (like readers), not ordained. They generally assist in hierarchical services and AFAIK do not have some special duties when services are celebrated without a bishop. They are vested in sticharion and orarion (however orarion is put on differently to the deacon's).


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« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2012, 07:29:05 PM »
I read somewhere that the Orthodox are beginning to allow female Sub-Deacon's?
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« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2012, 07:31:05 PM »
Generally women could be ordained as a deacon(ess) until XV century or something but such things are very controversial and (almost) unpracticed now.
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« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2012, 07:55:54 PM »
So a deaconess WOULD be Ordained then?   What sort of practices for them would that entail?
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« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2012, 07:59:15 PM »
They took part in baptisms and chrismations of female converts. It is uncertain what (if any) liturgical roles they had.
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