Subdeacon
Definition
Literally ‘below the deacon’; the lowest rank among church ministers, now chiefly assisting at a bishop’s liturgy (vesting him, handing him the dikirion, trikirion, crosier, laying the eagle rug); minimum age 20 (Trullan 15) and no marriage after ordination (Trullan 6); wears sticharion and orarion crosswise.