| Strong organizations for priests, deacons, pastoral ministers, and other groups, including lay groups, are indispensable. |
| He understood the Doctor and commended his stand on the ecclesiastical issues of the day to members of the congregation and to the deacons. |
| I give the homilies in our church, and we do workshops with other priests and deacons and Protestant ministers on this subject. |
| Whether we are lay or ordained as bishops, priests, or deacons, we are all called in our baptism to servanthood as the foundation of ministry. |
| In certain respects, lay ministers and ordained deacons have an advantage over priests in counseling prisoners. |
| Ensuring that Father's Day wasn't purely a male celebration, three women were also ordained deacons by the Church of Ireland. |
