A patristic and liturgical study of the deaconess in the Church. includes bibliography of the women deacon saints, the decline of the order, and the attempts at

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Contributing Authors: Fr. John Behr Dr Spyridoula Athanasopoulou-Kypriou Dr. Dionysios Skliris Fr. Andrew Louth Dr Mary Cunningham Met Kallistos Ware Rev Dr Sar