archdeacon

archdeacon
noun
  1. a senior Christian cleric (in the early Church a deacon, in the modern Anglican Church a priest) to whom a bishop delegates certain responsibilities
    会吏总(基督教一高级牧师,早期教会中称为会吏,现今英国国教中称为神甫,主教委之以一定责任)
语源
  1. Old English arce-, ercediacon, from ecclesiastical Latin archidiaconus, from ecclesiastical Greek arkhidiakonos, from arkhi- 'chief' + diakonos (see deacon)
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