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Names of Women Who Served As Deacons in the Early Church CHAT DEACONA CONVERSATION ABOUT WOMEN DEACONS Names of Women Who Served as Deacons in the Early Church Syria Basilis, sixth century Deacon Cappadocia Publia, fourth century Deacon (diako) Sabinia, 404-407 Deacon (diakonos), Antioch Eneon, Deacon (diakonis), Silwan (diakonos), Armenia Zaortha, late fourth century (Siloam), Jerusalem Dionysia, 543-558 Deacon in Deaconess (shamashta), Zebed Nonna of Palestine, Deacon Melitene, Armenia Valeriana, 488-512 Deaconess Maria of Archelais, sixth century (diakonissa), Antioch Deacon (diakonos), Archelais Constantinople Jannia, 488-512 deaconess, Olympias, fourth century Deacon Nektaria, member of Diaconate, Antioch (diakonos), Constantinople Satala, Armenia Casiana, fifth century Deacon Eusebia, fourth century Deacon Romana, fifth century Deaconess, of the Macedonian sect, Caria Antioch Constantinople Eusebia (Xene) first century Zoe, 594 Deacon (dik), Rihab, Celerina, fifth century Deacon, Deacon, Mylasa Transjordan Constantinople Arete, Deaconess (diaconissa), Anastasia, sixth century Amproukla, fifth century Deacon Aphrodisias Deaconess, Antioch (diakonos), Eugenia of Antioch, sixth century Constantinople Deaconess, Antioch Cilicia Basilina, 543-558 Deacon, Athanasia of Korykos, Deacon Elladis, Deaconess (diakisa), Umm Constantinople (diakonos) Qeis, Jordan St. Irene, ninth century Deacon, Theodora of Korykos, Deacon, Constantinople (diakonos) Palestine Nicarete, member of the Theophila, Deacon (diakonos), Severa of Jerusalem, 383-397 diaconate, Constantinople Korykos Deacon, Jerusalem Timothea, Deacon (diak), Korykos Sophia, fourth century Deacon Bithynia and Pontus Charitina- sixth century Deacon (diakonos), Jerusalem St. Macrina, 324-379 Deacon, (di), Korykos Susanna, fourth century Deacon Pontus (diakonos) Matrona, 379 Deacon, Inscription Manaris of Gaza, fourth century at Cosila, Bithynia Galatia Deacon, Gaza Philogonis, sixth century Deacon Lampadion, fourth century (diakonos), near Ankara Marthana, 400-417 Deaconess Deacon (diakonias), Annesi, (diaconissa), Jerusalem Pontus Domna, Deacon (diakonos), Bulduk Anastasia of Palestine, sixth Aeria, 532-562 Deacon (diakonos), century Deacon (diak), Deir el Qilt, Amisos, Pontus Nonna of Galatia, Deacon (diakonesa) Wadi Kilt Basilike, Deaconess, Maria of Moab, sixth century Neoclaudiopolis, Pontus Magna of Ancyra, Deacon (diakonos), Ancyra Deacon (dk), Mahaiy, Moab, Eugenia, Deacon (diakonos), Jordan Topallar, Bithynia Lycaonia Italy Eirene, fourth century Deacon Basilissa, Deacon (diakonos), Anna, sixth century Deaconess (diakonos), Thebes, Thessaly, Iconium (diac), Rome Greece Goulasis, Deaconess (diakonissa), Grapte, Deacon, Rome Agrippiane, early Byzantine period Cesme Deacon (diakonos), Patras, Greece Athanasia of Delphi, fifth century Egypt Deaconess (diakonissa), Delphi, Lydia Pentadia, fourth century Deaconess Greece Epiphaneia, fourth century Deacon (diakonissa) Eugenia, 538 Deacon (d), Nicopolis, (diakonese), Daldis Theodula, fourth/fifth century Thrace Epipania, sixth century Deaconess Deacon Andromacha, sixth century Deacon (diakonissa), between Philadelphia (diak), Klauseios and Magnesia Macedonia Tetradia of Volos, Deacon Lampadia of Smyrna, Deacon (diakonos), Volos, Thessaly, Greece (diakonos), Smyrna Theoprepeia, late fourth century Deacon (diak), Bonitsa Nikagora, Deaconess (diakonissa), Mount Hymettus, Athens Matrona of Stobi, fourth or fifth Phrygia century Deacon (diak), Stobi Alexandra of Pontus, Subdeacon Aurelia Faustina, fourth century (hypodiakon), Apollonia, Pontus, Posidonia, fourth/fifth century Thrace Deacon (diakonos), Laodicea Deacon (diak) Philippi Combusta Axia, 423-451 Deacon, Elaphia, late fourth century Cyrrhus Greek Islands Deaconess of the Encratites (diakonissa), Nevinne, Laodicea Agathe, fifth century Deacon Agaliasis, early fourth century Combusta (diakonos), Philippi Deacon (diakonos), island of Melos in the Cyclades, Aegean Sea Dipha, fourth-sixth century Deacon, Agathokleia, fifth/sixth century Kuyucak Deacon (diakonos), Edessa Nune, fifth/sixth century Deacon Theodosia, fifth/sixth century Africa (deakonnuse), Karadilli, Axylos Deacon (diakonos), Edessa Accepta, sixth/seventh century Eistrategis, Deacon (diako), Goslu Deaconess, Rukuma, Africa Celsa, Deaconess (diakonissa), Dalmatia Tyriaion Theophila, fourth century Deacon Gaul (France) Magna of Laodicea Combusta, (diakonos), Chersoneus Radegund, sixth century Deaconess Deacon Ausonia, sixth century Deaconess (diaconam), Poitiers Masa, Deacon (diak), ancient (diac), Doclea Abbess Respecta, sixth century Laodicea Combusta Deacon, Marseilles Matrona of Axyfos, Deaconess Moesia Theodora, sixth century Deaconess (diakonissa) (diaconissa), Tinici Celerina of Novae, sixth century Mesalina, Deaconess (diakonissa) Deaconess, Novae Paula of Laodicea Combusta, Pisidia Deacon (diakonos), Laodicea Kyrie, Deacon Combusta Achaia (Greece) Pribis, Deacon (diakonos), Axylos Phoebe, first century Deacon (diakonos), Corinth Severa, Deacon (diakonissa), Hadrianopolis Alexandria of Elis, fourth century Deacon (diak), Elis References Eisen, Ute E. Women Officeholders in Early Christianity. (Collegeville, M.N.: The Liturgical Press, 2000). Madigan, Kevin and Carolyn Osiek. Ordained Women in the Early Church. (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005)..
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