subdeacon

In the Eastern Orthodox Church, a cleric ranking just below a deacon.

In the traditional rite of the Roman Catholic Church, a cleric who acts as assistant to the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.

A member of the ecclesiastical order next below that of deacon.

One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor order in the Greek Church.

A Catholic clerical rank below that of a deacon, obsolete in the Roman Catholic Church.

A Catholic cleric who assists the deacon at High Mass and normally reads the Epistle at the Eucharist.

a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic Church