Sentences with deaconess
dea·con·ess
D d - Not until the more affluent 1950s, with the introduction of deaconesses, would Baptist women gain formal recognition for home mission purposes and a Baptist Maori mission begin.
- They are the primary carers of children, collectors of food like coconuts and fruit, and also act as deaconesses in the church.
- Kaiserwerth was a new type of hospital operated by Lutheran deaconesses and was reported to be like no other hospital in all of Europe or the United States.
- After a short introduction on the role of deacons and deaconesses, Swan relates the brief stories of sixteen such female ministers.
- The assembly also set aside money to help deaconesses develop their ideas into new ministries.
- What duties did early English Baptist churches assign to deaconesses?
- The organizing of an association of Lutheran deaconesses with their charitable work for the weakest members of society required an increasing amount of attention.
- To further support the position of the woman deacon being ordained, it is especially important to consider that deaconesses were ordained during the course of the Eucharistic liturgy.
- The ‘Conclusions’ of the symposium express a clear recognition that the deaconess was in fact ordained in a rite similar in structure to that of the male deacon.
- Behr-Sigel asks whether the ancient order of the deaconess could be restored since it has never been formally abolished in Orthodoxy.
- In the early 1970s, while in seminary, I wrote a seminar paper for Professor Glenn Hinson on the roles of deaconesses in the early church.
- Huszagh is among church members advocating the reinstitution of women deaconesses in Orthodoxy.
- She has also proposed a creative revival of the order of deaconesses that once existed in the Eastern Church.
- Churches have a difficult time finding elders, deacons or deaconesses to serve.
- He arranged for several deaconesses to work abroad, not only in North America but also in Russia, Estonia, and Bessarabia.
- Sister Marie, the Anglican deaconess, who has fed, clothed and comforted hundreds in the past week, still needs funds, provisions, bedding and clothing.