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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

They eventually settled in San Diego, where Saleh’s father, now a church deacon, worked as a car salesman.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

But others did it for him, including the deacon who led his memorial service.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 3, 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

It’s the October 1994, fortieth-anniversary gala of the New Brown Memorial Baptist Church, and a deacon stands before the audience to muster them up for prayer.

From "The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother" by James McBride

The church’s money was handled by a finance team and overseen by its elders and deacons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

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

Two deacons also took her hand and stressed the word grateful.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare