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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Deacons |
 | | With the reading of the Gospel should also probably be connected the occasional, though rare, appearance of the deacon in the office of preacher. |
 | | Actual preaching by a deacon, however, despite the precedent of the deacon Philip, was at all periods rare, and the Arian bishop of Antioch, Leontius, was censured for letting his deacon Aetius preach. |
 | | On the other hand, the greatest preacher of the East Syrian Church, Ephraem Syrus, is said by all the early authorities to have been only a deacon, though a phase in his own writings (Opp. |
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