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Ante-Nicene Fathers — American Roberts / Donaldson / Coxe edition, Volume VII · Constitutions of the Holy Apostles — unspecified — eng
XIX. Concerning a deaconess, I Bartholomew make this constitution: O bishop, thou shalt lay thy hands upon her in the presence of the presbytery, and of the deacons and deaconesses, and shall say:—
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