archdeacon

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Tony Pierce was your parish priest, your archdeacon, your bishop.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2025

By the age of 24, Laval was ordained a priest; he was quickly named an archdeacon and eventually a bishop.

From Salon • Feb. 25, 2023

“In a situation like this, you feel you’re powerless,” said Abiade Lozama, an Anglican archdeacon based in the south of the country, which was hard hit by the quake.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 17, 2021

Now, around one-third of clerics are women, and women can hold senior positions such as canon or archdeacon.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2014

Jacques-Pantaleon Court-Palais, born at Troyes in Champagne, archdeacon of Liege, bishop of Verdan, patriarch of Je- rusalem, elected pope at Viterbo, 29th Aug. 1261, consecrated 4th Sept. following, died 2d Aug. 1264 186.

From The Power Of The Popes by Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois