Deacon
A deacon is a role in the Christian church. The job of a deacon is different depending on the church he or she is a part of. A deacon usually helps to run the church and teaches people about Christianity. A deacon can also witness marriages.
Men who intend to become priests are usually named deacons for some time before advancing onto the rank of priest.
In the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches men are not allowed to marry after they have become deacons. Deacons in Protestant churches are allowed to marry.
A protodeacon is an honorary rank given to certain married deacons in Eastern Christian churches. In the Russian Orthodox Church it is an honorary title given to married deacons, as a mark of which, the clergyman is entitled to wear a burgundy-colored skufia.
Deacon Media
Saint Stephen, one of the first seven deacons in the Christian Church, holding a Gospel Book in a 1601 painting by Giacomo Cavedone
Ornately embroidered dalmatic, the proper vestment of the deacon (shown from the back with an appareled amice)
Deacon wearing a dalmatic and a biretta (Fr Dominic Jacob Cong. Orat. of Oxford Oratory)
Greek Orthodox deacon in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, wearing an orarion over his sticharion. On his head he wears the clerical kamilavka.
Syrian Orthodox deacon with the Orarion above the alb, a censer and the Gospel.
Painting of a Russian Orthodox deacon leading an ektenia (litany) by Andrei Ryabushkin (1888)
Certificate of ordination as a deacon in the Church of England given by Richard Terrick, the Bishop of London, to Gideon Bostwick. February 24, 1770
The ordination of five new deacons in a Free Church of Scotland, each signing 'The Formula', signifying his assent to the Westminster Confession of Faith, with the ordaining minister looking on.
Saint Stephen, detail of the bishops and deacons windows by Józef Mehoffer in the cathedral of Fribourg
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