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In female monasteries the role of a deaconess seems necessary for the good order and function of the monastery church. It is more seemly than having male deacons involved there.
In 2006, the larger Bulgarian and Romanian monasteries have a deaconess who is usually second in charge. In Romania they wear distinctive garb while performing diaconal duties. The question of having deaconesses perform the liturgical role of deacons in [[parish]] churches or [[cathedral]]s is could be seen as a different matter and should be since the practice of having deaconesses assist in those places seems to have generally died out in the Byzantine Church about 600 years ago with the subject inception of separate discussionthe Ottoman yoke.
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