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What is an archdeacon?

What is an archdeacon? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (ecclesiastical) In the Anglican and Eastern Orthodox systems, a senior administrative official in a diocese, just under the bishop, often in charge of an archdeaconry. As a title, it can be filled by either a deacon or priest.
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The archdeaconry of Richmondshire remained, but the archdeacon was shorn of power.
He then moved to Athens, where he served as archdeacon to the archbishop Meletios, who later became the ecumenical patriarch.
The archdeacon John Collas will administer the Adelaide diocese until a new archbishop is found early next year.
They hastily gathered three bishops to lay hands on the archdeacon as his successor.
Theobald put forward his archdeacon, Thomas Becket, the son of a London merchant, who had demonstrated the brilliance of his mind in Theobald's service.
In 418, competing camps elected their own popes, Eulalius, an archdeacon, and Boniface I, a priest.

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