---
title: 'Report on the Diaconate'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Robert Lewis Dabney'
- 'John Lafayette Girardeau'
- 'Thomas E. Peck'
date: 1884-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Presbyterian Polity'
- 'Ecclesiology'
scriptures:
- 'Acts 6'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/dabney-girardeau-peck-1884-report-on-the-diaconate
---

# Report on the Diaconate

1884 General Assembly report arguing the diaconate is a distinct office from elders/ministers, responsible beyond care of the poor for temporal affairs and relations to church agencies.

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