Evangelos Theodorou argued that female deacons were actually ordained in antiquity.

He expressed support for the ordination of female deacons.

The diocese did not ordain women to the presbyterate, but does have two female deacons.

Rules about male and female deacons and widows (chapters 14-16)

A reference to the qualifications required of these female deacons appears Paul's first letter to Timothy, I Tim 3:8-13:

By at least the ninth or tenth century, only nuns were ordained as female deacons.

A female deacon has made history by becoming the first woman to be put in charge of a parish in the Gloucester Diocese.

I have taken an active interest in modernizing the standards for male and female deacons .

She also was a founding member of Second Baptist Church and was one of the first female deacons in the convention.

Actually there are ten female deacons working in Germany.