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Walters gave him a box filled with handmade items, including piles of mittens, hats, and other items he’d crocheted for children; Collins dropped the box off with a church deacon.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

His mother, Karen, sang in the choir, and his father, Andrew, was a deacon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Parishioners proceed to the front of the church, where a priest or deacon marks a black cross on their foreheads.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

Again facing fraud charges, he fled the UK for a remote part of Kenya where not only did he claim to be an Anglican deacon but also a retired cardiac surgeon.

From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2025

Today, she is a deacon at the Mount Calvary United Church of Christ in Durham and remains active in church affairs.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson

Priests and deacons have marched at rallies and prayed for those detained and deported from Orange County to downtown L.A. and beyond.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2025

Currently the Catholic Church only allows men to become deacons - ordained ministers who can officiate baptisms, weddings and funerals but not mass, unlike priests.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2024

Two referred to the possibility of women being ordained deacons, and those received the most negative votes even though they passed.

From Reuters ● Oct. 28, 2023

Some even backed the ordaining of women as deacons.

From New York Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

When the hymn ended, she held Turner’s hand and walked behind her husband’s casket as the deacons carried it out of the church.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt