How to Use deacon in a Sentence

deacon

noun

• Three priests and a deacon led, followed by 18 nuns, then the rest of the faithful.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• My mom was a missionary in our church, and my dad is a deacon.
  — Paul Schrodt, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Prior to the merger, Ray was a deacon with the old church for roughly 12 years, Mack said.
  — Elliot Hughes, Journal Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2023
• The question was whether the ex-deacon, now 84 and enfeebled, would live long enough to hear it.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• In Decatur, Snipes, who was training to be a deacon, was one of the first to arrive at her church.
  — Greg Jaffe, Washington Post, 24 May 2021
• My dad is a lawyer and also a deacon at my childhood church.
  — Marci Alboher, Fortune Well, 12 Apr. 2023
• Stewart, 55, works as a road foreman and is a church deacon.
  — Antonio Planas, NBC News, 28 Aug. 2021
• In the end, the killer wasn’t the cruel ex-boyfriend or the church deacon with a dubious alibi.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Father Michael Duffy lifted up the monstrance, while the deacon rang a bell.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Richard Dwyer was a disabled veteran and deacon in the Catholic Church.
  — Thomas Weber, USA TODAY, 13 Feb. 2022
• Last month, armed gunmen stormed a Port-au-Prince church building and killed a deacon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• Among those killed in the attack were the store security guard and a church deacon.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 1 June 2022
• Dzhalilov, the math teacher and deacon, and Miller, the musician, were staying a few blocks away.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
• Leonid Dzhalilov, who is forty-three, worked as a high-school math teacher and served as a deacon at a Moscow church.
  — Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 20 Mar. 2022
• The pastor, badly mangled, lies next to the deacon, mother and child, both of whom were killed by shrapnel to the head.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 16 Apr. 2023
• In any event, Massett said, the church was not going to let the disgraced deacon work with children.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2020
• Many others said they were abused during Brignac’s 12-year run as a deacon.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• His father was a timber broker and a deacon in the Baptist church.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• Women cannot be ordained as deacons, priests or bishops in the Catholic Church.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• The son of a Sunday school teacher and a church deacon, Webber didn’t grow up smoking pot.
  — Will Yakowicz, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• To this day, one of the deacon’s mothers still refuses to believe her son died at the hands of the separatists.
  — Thomas Grove, WSJ, 4 Mar. 2022
• Served as a deacon and Sunday School teacher at his church in Kansas.
  — Cnn Editorial Research, CNN, 2 May 2021
• One of the deacons—only men were allowed to be deacons—phoned my mother.
  — Jamie Quatro, The New Yorker, 31 July 2023
• Turner was a deacon at the church where Wright-Robinson was a former member.
  — Charmaine Patterson, PEOPLE.com, 21 Mar. 2022
• Brignac, who was suspended from his duties as a deacon in 1988.
  — Ramon Antonio Vargas | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Krista Muscat, deacon of the Benevolence Fund at the church, says a contingent from her church have been going for the past decade.
  — Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 30 May 2022
• She isn’t ordained but works in ministry as a licensed deacon.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Aug. 2022
• Canon Law reserves the homily to a priest or deacon in virtue of their ordination.
  — Fr. Goran Jovicic, National Review, 13 June 2021
• Students confide in him about the violence that touches their lives, the deacon told the Tribune.
  — Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune, 11 Aug. 2022
• Baker is involved as a deacon tutor with her church and with food drives with her middle school food pantry.
  — Kyle Neddenriep, The Indianapolis Star, 26 May 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024