Deaconesses

[Michael the Iconographer]

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/nicea1.txt

I Nicea

CANON XIX.

CONCERNING the Paulianists who have flown for refuge to the
Catholic Church, it has been decreed that they must by all means be
rebaptized; and if any of them who in past time have been numbered
among their clergy should be found blameless and without reproach,
let them be rebaptized and ordained by the Bishop of the Catholic
Church; but if the examination should discover them to be unfit, they
ought to be deposed. Likewise in the case of their deaconesses, and
generally in the case of those who have been enrolled among their
clergy, let the same form be observed. And we mean by deaconesses
such as have assumed the habit, but who, since they have no
imposition of hands, are to be numbered only among the laity.

[MariaRegina]

Several monasteries of women are saying that the early deaconesses are actually nuns because they wear a habit.

[Michael the Iconographer]

MY point in posting this Canon from Nicea is this-for all of the feminazi liberals out there who bring up the idea of deaconesses, the deaconesses were not clergy! Thus, the fact that deaconesses existed gives no credence to the argument that liberals put forward for a female priesthood. They do seem to be more along the lines of a non-cloistered nun to me.