Exempel på 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.

• It enables deaconesses, who now exercise their ministry as laywomen, to be ordained as deacons, not as priests.

• Deaconesses already have the authority to conduct burial services.

• He said, quite rightly, that this development is part of a process which began in 1861 when the first deaconesses were authorised.

• One deaconess, now aged 85, retired in 1960 after 42 years of service.

• In the case of the minister and the deaconess it is their livelihood and ability to remain in the calling.

• The protection is confined to those coming in prior to this date and to those who preach—the ministers, deaconesses or the local preachers.

• I too, have received letters from constituents, including deaconesses who are serving in very deprived parishes.

• Many deaconesses know engaged couples much better than the priest who will marry them.

• In addition, however, they are also fulfilling the role of deaconesses as full-time parish workers and church social workers.

• The major function which deaconesses cannot perform at present and which differentiates them from the deacons is officiation at a marriage.

• There are about 16 deaconesses who cannot become deacons because they married a divorced partner.

• The decision is also awaited by many women who are not deaconesses but members of congregations, and women who are not members of congregations.