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Noun: subdeacon  ,súb'dee-kun
  1. 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

Derived forms: subdeacons

Type of: clergyman, Holy Order, man of the cloth, Order, reverend

Encyclopedia: Subdeacon