Found 2 items, similar to Subdeacon.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: subdeacon subdeacon n : a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian Church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church
English → English (gcide) Definition: Subdeacon Subdeacon \Sub*dea"con\, n. [Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L. subdiaconus.] (Eccl.) One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church. [1913 Webster]