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What is a subdeacon?

What is a subdeacon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church.
  2. A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.
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For deacon and subdeacon: amice, alb and cincture, and stole and dalmatic for the deacon, and tunic for the subdeacon.
He there said mass, St. Rusticus performing the part of deacon and Eleutherus that of subdeacon.
The dalmatic and tunicle are modified chasubles worn by the deacon and subdeacon respectively at a high Mass.
On other occasions the girded alb and the amice are often worn by the deacon and subdeacon.
This Ethelwulfe minding in his youth to haue bene a priest, entered into the orders as subdeacon, and as some write, Henrie Hunt.
Some will want to follow today's practice and say Mass with only one deacon, others with a deacon and subdeacon.

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