Voorbeelden van deaconess

• She thinks we're sure to be deaconesses, at the very least. 

• Some churches did ordain women as pastors over congregations of their own, others elected women deaconesses, and a few churches allowed women, as delegates, to sit in their conferences. 

• The Sisters Evelyn and Miriam, who organized much of this work, were Wesley deaconesses employed in South Africa. 

• The deaconesses date from the first century of the church. 

• There came one day for consultation a very healthy-looking woman, a deaconess of the Lutheran Church. 

• Older scholarship wrongly assumed that women were deaconesses, rather than deacons, from the very beginning.

• To all intents and purposes, deaconesses already carry out all the functions of deacons except marriage, which deacons hardly ever carry out anyway.

• We must emphasise the very real contribution that deaconesses are making in that way.