subdiaconal

As early as the sixth century subdiaconal tunic was worn in Spian, which according to the ninth canon of the synod of Braga, was hardly or not at all distinguishable from the diaconal tunic, the so-called alb.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

It advised all bishops to make division of the canonries, so that the one half should be presbyteral and the other half diaconal and subdiaconal.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

If, as in many instances is the case, the prebends are distinct, the order of precedence is: dignitaries, canons of sacerdotal order, canons of diaconal order, and canons of subdiaconal order.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

As to the origin of the subdiaconal tunic it was, without doubt a copy of the dalmatic, in which the vertical trimming of the dalmatic was omitted, and the sleeves were made narrower.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

The tunic (stickaphion) worn by the subdeacon in the Oriental Rites does not correspond to the subdiaconal tunic of Western Europe, which from the beginning had the fixed character of an outer tunic, but resembled the alb, even though, according to present custom, it is no longer exclusively white, but often coloured.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Hence, for a subdiaconal prebend twenty years complete, for a diaconal twenty-one years complete, and for a presbyteral twenty-three years complete sufficed.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

The counsel of the canons is required: when the bishop has to make pecuniary provision out of the income of the diocese in order to provide lectures in Scripture, theology, or grammar for the clergy; for dividing the prebends of the canons into subdiaconal, diaconal, and sacerdotal prebends; for decreeing processions; in making synodal decrees.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

A canon theologian and a canon penitentiary must be appointed, by concursus, for each chapter, but there is no distinction into sacerdotal, diaconal, and subdiaconal canons.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

According to a letter of Pope Saint Gregory the Great to Bishop John of Syracuse, the subdiaconal tunic was, for a time, customary at Rome as early as the sixth century.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

A subdiaconal application would receive attention; that was the suggestion between the lines.

Somehow Good William Frend De Morgan 1878