Council,  Canon

 1 Intro  |          minimum age of forty for deaconesses lost its force after the
 2 Intro  |           Church ceased to ordain deaconesses.68~ Investigation into the
 3   1”,19|            Likewise as concerning deaconesses, and all those who are embraced
 4   1”,19|           We have referred to the deaconesses who have been examined under
 5   1”,19|          women of the Paulianists deaconesses, because of his being unaware
 6   1”,19|          ordained in the order of deaconesses instituted by the Paulianists,
 7   1”,19|   diaconate, let them be ordained deaconesses too. (See also Ap. cc. XLVI
 8   1”,19|           We have referred to the deaconesses who have been examined under
 9   1”,19|         this: We have referred to deaconesses separately, who wore this
10   1”,19|       following the profession of deaconesses, since they too, like their
11   1”,19|          divine grace, so too the deaconesses among them possessed only
12   1”,19|       possessed only the habit of deaconesses, but no true appointment
13   4”,15|       that those who have induced deaconesses and nuns to become prostitutes
14   7”,39|        with respect to widows and deaconesses closely we have allowed
15   7”,39|         example of the widows and deaconesses, have reduced the sixteen
16   8”,23|          womankind only by way of deaconesses, whom it called widows,
17   8”,23|        said that the battalion of deaconesses is in the Church, not to
18   8”,23|        Marcus of Alexandria, that Deaconesses enjoyed a rank in the Bema (
19   8”,23|       says that in Constantinople deaconesses are ordained who have no
20   8”,23|        them as sisters and fellow deaconesses in the matter of preaching
21   8”,23|      prayers over her. Concerning deaconesses St. Paul writes in his First
22   8”,23|           11). Note that although deaconesses were not the same as widows,
23   8”,23|        this fact, it is true that deaconesses were recruited and ordained
24   8”,23|      particular way in which such deaconesses were ordained, he may learn
25   8”,23|         example of the widows and deaconesses which the Canon adduces
26   8”,23|     widows in the one case and to deaconesses in the other. But neither
27   8”,23| temperance in marriage, which the deaconesses are able to exercise in
28   8”,23|           not in the Battalion of Deaconesses, yet, in spite of this fact,
29   8”,23|         spite of this fact, since deaconesses were also ordained also
30   8”,23|          it is obvious that these deaconesses used to be ordained when
31   8”,23|         ought not the widows, and deaconesses by virtue of an imposition
32   8”,23|      reduced these sixty years of deaconesses to forty, by decreeing in
33   8”,23|         example of the widows and deaconesses which the Canon cites is
34   8”,23|          meaning. For it compares deaconesses with deaconesses that have
35   8”,23|         compares deaconesses with deaconesses that have been drawn from
36   8”,23|      widows. As for the fact that deaconesses actually were ordained from
37   8”,23|         too, that the marriage of deaconesses was more unlawful than the