How to Use deacon in a Sentence

deacon

noun

• Phoebe, who is a deacon in the church in Cenchreae.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 10 Nov. 2025
• My mom was a missionary in our church, and my dad is a deacon.
  — Paul Schrodt, New York Times, 8 Nov. 2022
• Johnson’s a deacon at his church and a beacon of truth.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 4 Aug. 2025
• The jokes between innings would get a deacon banned from church.
  — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 20 Aug. 2020
• David the deacon, the good one, called by God, destined to be a priest.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 10 Oct. 2025
• Chris Collins had been a member of the church for four years and served as a deacon.
  — Liam Quinn, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
• David was a doctor at the hospital and a deacon at his church.
  — Lizz Schumer, PEOPLE, 20 Jan. 2026
• Some of the deacons are women and the head of the steward board is a woman.
  — Corey Williams, Fox News, 9 Sep. 2018
• Sherry Johnson was raped by a church deacon at the age of nine.
  — Araceli Cruz, Teen Vogue, 1 Feb. 2018
• Keith is a deacon at a country church down a dirt road just outside of town.
  — Claire Galofaro, The Denver Post, 6 May 2020
• The church will be packed with priests and deacons from the Cleveland diocese.
  — Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com, 15 Aug. 2017
• Thirty-two deacons from around the world were being ordained that day.
  — Kristine Tran, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
• Over the next few years, the deacon’s ministry on death row expanded.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2025
• In the front row, a burly deacon flipped the pages of his worn King James version.
  — Joshua Sharpe august 6, Literary Hub, 6 Aug. 2025
• Three priests and a deacon led, followed by 18 nuns, then the rest of the faithful.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• Jerry was a deacon and a church elder, and Rosie sang in the choir and helped the youth group.
  — Ivana Hrynkiw, AL.com, 7 Jan. 2018
• Among those killed in the attack were the store security guard and a church deacon.
  — Brigid Kennedy, The Week, 1 June 2022
• Each diocese disclosed its own list of priests and deacons, all of whom are either dead or no longer serve the church.
  — Joseph De Avila, WSJ, 13 Feb. 2019
• Video of that would-be shooting showed the moment the man's gun jammed as the deacon dove over a pew and tackled him.
  — Omar Villafranca, CBS News, 13 May 2024
• Many others said they were abused during Brignac’s 12-year run as a deacon.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• Last month, armed gunmen stormed a Port-au-Prince church building and killed a deacon.
  — Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2021
• The question was whether the ex-deacon, now 84 and enfeebled, would live long enough to hear it.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 18 Dec. 2020
• His father was a timber broker and a deacon in the Baptist church.
  — Thomas Lake, CNN Money, 21 Apr. 2023
• In the end, the killer wasn’t the cruel ex-boyfriend or the church deacon with a dubious alibi.
  — Washington Post, 1 June 2021
• Pollio was living in Sebring and was a deacon at his church there, his father said.
  — Angie Dimichele, Sun Sentinel, 8 May 2026
• That effective date was later moved up to June 1 – the same day the church’s board of deacons met.
  — Tim Funk, charlotteobserver, 9 June 2017
• Women cannot be ordained as deacons, priests or bishops in the Catholic Church.
  — Frances Vinall, Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2023
• Father Michael Duffy lifted up the monstrance, while the deacon rang a bell.
  — Tim Busch, WSJ, 14 Oct. 2021
• For instance, the Catholic Church doesn't permit a woman to be a priest or a deacon.
  — Marianne Schnall, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
• In any event, Massett said, the church was not going to let the disgraced deacon work with children.
  — David A. Hammer, NOLA.com, 17 Dec. 2020