The Disappearing Deaconess: How the Hierarchical Ordering of Church Offices Doomed the Female Diaconate Helen & Kurt Wolff Book Kenneth Minkema

Kenneth Minkema

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The Disappearing Deaconess: How the Hierarchical Ordering of Church Offices Doomed the Female Diaconate Helen & Kurt Wolff Book Kenneth MinkemaFor all the recent research on deaconesses in the early Church, we still know very little about them, for two reasons: First, their duties were very limited, so there isn't much said about them in ancient texts. Second, their presence was also very limited: There weren't many of them anywhere outside Constantinople. In many places, there weren't any at all, and for a long time, there weren't any anywhere in the Orthodox Church. Why? The Disappearing