deaconryn.
/ˈdiːkənri/ 1.
a. The office of a deacon; deaconship, diaconate.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > deacon > [noun] > office of
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1483 Cath. Angl. 95 A Dekenry, diaconatus.
1566 Bk. Discipline in Wks. J. Knox (1848) II. 220 Tutorie, Curatorie, Deaconrie, or ony siclike.
1642 E. Dering Coll. Speeches on Relig. 133 S. Paul calleth his Apostleship but a Deaconry.
1824 G. Chalmers Caledonia III. v. §7. 474 An act annulling that incorporation for having a deaconry.
b. A body of deacons collectively,
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a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1697) IV. iv. 188 The Deacons of all those Churches, should make up a common Deaconry.
2. Roman Catholic Church. The chapel and charitable institution of a ‘region’ of Rome, in charge of a cardinal or regionary deacon.
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society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > Roman Catholic
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1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 67 The Chapels that were ordinarily united to these Religious houses, being called Deaconries.
1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa i. iii. 68 Deaconries, where the Cardinals had their Residence, and..were call'd Cardinal Deacons, because of their residence in the Deaconry.
1751 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 7) Deaconry is also a name still reserved to the chapels and oratories in Rome, under the direction of the several deacons, in their respective regions..To the deaconries were annexed a sort of hospitals..governed by the regionary deacons, called cardinal deacons.
1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity I. iii. vii. 442 The churches and monasteries, the hospitals, deaconries or ecclesiastical boards for the poor.
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