Orthodoxy has female deacons

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Orthodoxy has female deacons Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 13:13:11 454d2e No.704556

Who would have guessed?

http://orthochristian.com/101395.html

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 13:14:37 c5abb9 No.704558

And? This has been a thing since antiquity.

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 13:26:25 ee11f3 No.704564

This is old-

>2017

Yes, this is old. Do you live under a rock, OP?

The Church of Greece restored the female diaconate in 2004 too, I believe.

As for the office itself, it was sometimes understood as a minor order (see the Council of Nicea's canon 19) and sometimes as a major order equal to that of male deacons (see the Council in Trullo's canon 14).

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 13:31:22 411978 No.704566

>>704556

>Who would have guessed?

I don't know, maybe someone who's read any church history at all.

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 13:50:54 cbc708 No.704570

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>orthos resort to MUH CHURCH FATHERS when confronted with female deacons but ignore the Early Church when confronted with the reality of the papacy

this is too funny

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 14:05:42 1d9897 No.704572

>>704556

So just like in the Bible?

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 14:15:16 5d3d63 No.704575

>>704570

Popes used to be not heretics for many centuries.

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 14:16:56 ee11f3 No.704576

>>704570

It is the Catholics who ignore the early Church (and in fact the first 1000 years or so of the Church) concerning the Papacy.

Incidentally, they ignore the same when deaconesses are concerned, even going as far as to claim the office never existed within canonical Christianity.

But I already know you're a falseflagger who wants to turn this into yet another thread about papal supremacy. Isn't there already one in the catalog?

Christanon 09/21/18 (Fri) 14:38:45 83ece3 No.704581

>>704556

"I commend to you our sister Phoebe, a deaconess of the church at Cenchrea" (Romans 16-1)