diaconal

How to use diaconal in a sentence

• The executive business of Christian Brethren is managed by deacons; but the diaconal stage has not yet been reached in Preston.

  Our Churches and Chapels | Atticus

• He took diaconal orders in 1791, but almost immediately became professor of classics at Breslau.

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 | Various

• The widows were soon entrusted with diaconal tasks connected with the worship, and received a corresponding respect.

  History of Dogma, Volume 1 (of 7) | Adolph Harnack

• At the Rural diaconal Conference, 'my chief supporter' is one of the lay speakers.

  Hodge and His Masters | Richard Jefferies