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Add your E-mail to our Mailing List to receive a notice when we update our web site. | | | | Subdeacon According to church orders he is counted to be below a deacon, whose duty in the Roman Catholic and the Eastern churches is to prepare the holy vessels for the Mass, and who in Anglican churches reads the epistle at the Eucharist. A hand is not put over him and has no priestly class. He guards church gates and keeps order. |
