… who and what these deaconesses and their functions were, for … been assimilated into the
deaconesses mentioned in the … possible the history of deaconesses in their various concrete …

… in the debate between Gryson and Martimort over whether the deaconess in the Apostolic
… to give the chalice to the deaconess, FitzGerald, Women Deacons, 102, cites a Swedish …

… of deaconesses. Examining the theological and cultural context in which that office arose
helps explain this varied history. Next, the Western deaconess … Martimort properly identified as …

… Martimort, particularly, profoundly disagrees with Vagaggini … Even so, Martimort does not
completely close the case on … our sister, who is also deaconess in the church of Cenchraea”). …

… , most scholarly book on deaconesses in these centuries is Aimé Georges Martimort's
Deaconesses: A Historical … Martimort found documents referring to deaconesses in the fifth …

… by RPCNA for female deacons, but even their deaconesses were not peers of the deacons.
PostReformation, proponents of deaconesses mimicked that tiny group of commentators. …

… Then we will trace the story of deaconesses from the early church onward, finally coming to
… ."102 A series of church councils pronounced against the ordination of deaconesses. The …

… The Didascalia also discourages widows from baptising (2.151) but provides a role for
deaconesses in assisting at the baptism of women and in teaching women neophytes (chap. 16; …

[Although the ordained order of deaconesses vanished in the Byzantine Church, some women
continued to fulfill, either informally or formally, various liturgical functions in public church …

… One of the prayers we find was: ‘For so—and—so the deaconess, who has just been
ordained, and for her salvation, let us pray the Lord. That the most merciful Lord may give her a …