1. The Archdiocese of Mobile Office of Permanent Diaconate is holding inquiry sessions beginning in April for men possibly interested in becoming permanent

2. Churchill, who, as you are Aware, is good enough to come to us for his diaconate, and, as we hope, for much longer; and being a

3. The Seventh Ecumenical Council in AD 787 recognized the right of Abbots to ordain their monks to the inferior orders below the diaconate, a power usually reserved to bishops

4. There are also several similar words to Canonry in our dictionary, which are Clerics, Conclave, Diaconate, Ecclesiastics, Priesthood, Prelacy, The Cloth, First Estate, Cardinalate, Pastorate, Rabbinate, Canonicate, Deaconry and Holy Order

5. Clerical Celibacy is the discipline within the Catholic Church by which only unmarried men are ordained to the episcopate, to the priesthood (with individual exceptions) in some autonomous particular Churches, and similarly to the diaconate (with exceptions for certain categories of people)