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At the same time, the [[Church of Russia|Russian Orthodox Church]], Japan's mother Church, had deaconesses. It seems from the scant material available that the Russian Church has always had deaconesses.
The Greek Orthodox Church of Greece has had deaconesses intermittently over the recent centuries, and appears to have usually had deaconesses in its female [[monastery|monasteries]] from time immemorial. In 2004 the Holy Synod of the Church of Greece officially restored the female diaconate. [http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=3997]
The Russian Orthodox Church still has deaconesses. [http://www.antiochian.org.au/content/view/466/6/]