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He is the protodeacon, or the senior cardinal deacon.
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Mill-itch!’ that his neighbour civilly and sympathetically advised him, ‘to take care of his voice, it would be the making of a protodeacon.’
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'to take care of his voice, it would be the making of a protodeacon.'
Dream Tales and Prose Poems Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
lampbane commented on the word protodeacon
An honorific rank given to certain married deacons in Eastern Orthodox churches.
September 12, 2008