archdeacon
Meaning of archdeacon
noun
a senior Christian cleric (in the early Church a deacon, in the modern Anglican Church a priest) to whom a bishop delegates certain responsibilities.
Old English arce-, ercediacon, from ecclesiastical Latin archidiaconus, from ecclesiastical Greek arkhidiakonos, from arkhi- ‘chief’ + diakonos (see deacon).
Information about archdeacon
- It is a name.
- The plural form of archdeacon is: archdeacons.
- Languages in which archdeacon is used:
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Hyphenation of archdeacon
archdea-con
- It consists of 2 syllables and 10 chars.
- archdeacon is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
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