Deacon vs Evangelist - What's the difference?
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(Church history) A designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6).
(Roman Catholicism) A clergyman ranked directly below a priest, with duties of helping the priests and carrying out parish work.
(Protestantism) Free Churches : A lay leader of a congregation who assists the pastor.
(Protestantism) Anglicanism : An ordained clergyman usually serving a year prior to being ordained presbyter, though in some cases they remain a permanent deacon.
(Protestantism) Methodism : A separate office from that of minister, neither leading to the other; instead there is a permanent deaconate.
(freemasonry) A junior lodge officer.
(Mormonism) The lowest office in the (Aaronic priesthood), generally held by 12 or 13 year old boys or recent converts.
(US, animal husbandry) A male calf of a dairy breed, so called because they are usually ed (see below).
(Scotland) The chairman of an incorporated company.
(Christianity, music) For a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.
(US, animal husbandry) To kill a calf shortly after birth.
(US) To place fresh fruit at the top of a barrel or other container, with spoiled or imperfect fruit hidden beneath.
* {{quote-book, 1902, (George Horace Lorimer), Old Gorgon Graham
, passage=It's like buying a barrel of apples that's been deaconed — after you've found that the deeper you go the meaner and wormier the fruit, you forget all about the layer of big, rosy, wax-finished pippins that was on top.}}
(Christianity) An itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.
(Bible) A writer of a gospel, especially the four New Testament Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John), usually Evangelist.
(primitive Church) A person who first brought the gospel to a city or region.
(Mormon Church) A patriarch
A person marked by extreme enthusiasm for or support of any cause, particularly with regard to religion.
* 1992 , J. D. Douglas, Who's Who in Christian History , ISBN 0842310142, p. 94.
* 1994 , Frank Lambert, "Pedlar in Divinity" , ISBN 0691096163, p. 10.
* 1996 , Peter J. Conn, Pearl S. Buck: A Cultural Biography , ISBN 0521639891, p. 149.
As nouns the difference between deacon and evangelist
is that deacon is a designated minister of charity in the early Church (see Acts 6:1-6) while evangelist is an itinerant or special preacher, especially a revivalist, who conducts services in different cities or locations, now often televised.As a verb deacon
is for a choir leader to lead a hymn by speaking one or two lines at a time, which are then sung by the choir.deacon
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* archdeacon * deaconal * deaconate * deaconess * deaconize * deaconry * deacon-seat * subdeaconSee also
* (wikipedia "deacon") * diaconateVerb
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(en noun)- Booth, William (1829-1912) English evangelist ; founder and first general of the Salvation Army ... his subordinates being expected to give him unquestioning obedience.
- Yet in the spreading consumer market of the mid-1700s, his renditions competed with others offering a far different account of the evangelist and his message. The famous artist William Hogarth mocked Whitefield in two engravings presenting the revivalist as a religious fanatic who held sway over the superstitious lower orders.
- The film implies that the evangelist , as a type, is a fanatic, a sanctimonious prig, and ultimately a hypocrite.
