subdeacon

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

subdeacon
    n 1: a clergyman an order below deacon; one of the Holy Orders
         in the unreformed western Christian church and the eastern
         Catholic Churches but now suppressed in the Roman Catholic
         Church

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Subdeacon \Sub*dea"con\, n. [Pref. sub- + deacon: cf. L.
   subdiaconus.] (Eccl.)
   One belonging to an order in the Roman Catholic Church, next
   interior to the order of deacons; also, a member of a minor
   order in the Greek Church.
   [1913 Webster] Subdeaconry