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• 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

• So was the 'deacon and the subdeacon.
• A subdeacon brought only one large book, explaining that the lectors kept the rest.
• The celebrant passed in a rich red damask chasuble, followed by a deacon and a subdeacon in dalmatic and tunic.