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"Please, leave her! At least here she's far from my pulpit!" : “I see the Spirit working in the Synod in his leading us into the fullness of truth.” Great! He is right! But will the Synod face up to the truth that women’s sacramental ordination to the diaconate needs to be urgently restored?
The ministry of women deacons is mentioned by the Fathers of the Church: St Clement of Alexandria , Origen , Epiphanius of Salamis , St Basil of Caesarea , St John Chrysostom , St Gregory of Nyssa and many others. Moreover, we have ample historical records of the ministry of women deacons in Greece, Asia Minor, Dalmatia, Syria and Palestine, from certainly the third to at least the eighth century.
Their ordination rite was substantially identical to the rite used for male deacons. The rite has been preserved in ancient manuscripts, such as the Barberini Gr 336 , the Bessarion , Vatican Mss Gr 1872 , the Coislin Gr 213 and the Codex Vaticanus Syr 19.• Before the ordination of both the male and female deacon the bishop publicly declared his intention of ordaining the candidate to be a deacon through the “Divine Grace” statement, as only happened for all major orders.
• The ordination of both male and female deacons took place in the sanctuary before the altar, during the liturgy of the Eucharist and at a very solemn moment, namely after the sacred Anaphora, just like for the ordination of male deacons, presbyters, and bishops. In contrast, so-called minor orders, such as the lectorate and subdiaconate, were imparted by a simple imposition of hands outside the sanctuary and not during the Eucharist., as a sign of their ecclesiastical rank.
The First Council of Nicea , while declaring invalid the diaconate of women in the sect of Paul of Samosata “because those women had not received the imposition of hands,” implicitly acknowledged women’s diaconate as a valid order in the Church. The Council of Chalcedon imposed a minimum age on female deacons, as it did on male deacons and priests, an injunction repeated by the Council of Trullo .
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