Robinson did not regard the election of the seven, in Acts 6:1-4, as marking the origin of the diaconate, though he thought the diaconate grew out of this election.
The qualifications for the diaconatementioned in Acts 6:1-4 and 1 Tim.
Leontius intended his diaconate to be a means of propagating Arianism.
Gregory took the order of Reader, but instead of pressing forward to the diaconate and priesthood, showed an inclination to pursue a wholly secular avocation as a rhetorician, and this drew down on him a sharp reprimand from Gregory Nazianzen.
That system was adopted probably about the middle of the 3rd century, but in Rome the diaconate probably remained centralized.
No application was ever made for consecration in Denmark; while the offer of the Danish government, made through Mr. Adams, our then Minister to England, related only to the ordination of candidates for the diaconate and priesthood.
It is scarcely necessary to go farther in Church history, but the lower one goes the more clearly we shall see that the original notion of the diaconate is never forgotten.
Bishop Lightfoot, in his well-known Essay on the Christian Ministry, from which we have already quoted, does not admit any likeness between the office of the diaconate in the Church and any similar office in the synagogue.
It was then but very seldom that a man chosen to the diaconate abandoned it for a higher function.
Indeed, if we could be sure that in Ireland the normal interval between admission to the diaconate and to the priesthood was at all as long as in other countries we might put it further back.
His admission to the diaconate may be placed at least a year earlier, i.
The traditions of the Old Church were respected to some extent; for example, no influence has induced the native brethren to remit the diaconate to a mere service in temporalities.
The gaily-dressed and fully-armed young mountaineers whom I have seen as representing the diaconate look far more like bandits than deacons.
The first definite reference to the diaconate occurs in St Paul's Epistle to the Philippians (i.
The traditionary position of the diaconate as one of the "three orders" is here maintained.
In these (which of course include Baptists) the diaconate is a body of laymen appointed by the members of the church to act as a management committee and to assist the minister in the work of the church.
It was celebrated as a Thanksgiving festival for the restoration of the diaconate of women to the Church.
There is no mention in Luther's writings, however, of the diaconate of women.
It was in the East that the diaconateof women originated, and here that it attained its greatest growth.
They plainly show the estimate he set upon the diaconateof women, and his endeavor to wisely cherish it.
In addition to the diaconate appointed by the apostles recorded in the sixth chapter of Acts, we must look for a female diaconate as an office in the Church.
The mother-houses in Germany offered good working-models, and their practical advantages were so obvious that in whatever Protestant denomination the diaconate of women has revived, it has been in connection with these homes.
We have now reached the nineteenth century, and from the early Church to the present time we find successive if sporadic attempts to incorporate into the Church the active diaconate of women.
In other words, we shall not expect to take the female diaconate of the days of the apostles and transport it unchanged, into nineteenth century environments.
On the other hand, that Chalmers was profoundly touched by the work that Fliedner had accomplished in Germany there can be no doubt; we have his own words to testify to the importance he attached to the diaconate of women.
We shall rather expect to see the invariably useful qualities of the diaconate of women adapted to the needs of the sinful, sorrowing, ignorant, and helpless of the age in which we live.
From the last half of the fifth century the diaconate of women declined in importance.
There was no historian of the diaconate of the early Church.
Originally, a permanent Order in the Church, the Diaconate is now, in the Church of England, generally regarded as a step to the Priesthood.
The bishop had admitted him to the diaconatein Sydney, and now at Paihia ordained him to the priesthood.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diaconate" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
