---
title: 'Women Deacons in the Early Christian Church'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Thomas Patton Stevenson'
date: 1888-12-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Ancient and Medieval Church History'
- 'Ecclesiology (General)'
scriptures:
- 'Romans 16'
- 'Judges 4'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/stevenson-1888-women-deacons-in-the-early-christian-church
---

# Women Deacons in the Early Christian Church

Historical survey arguing that women served as deacons (deaconesses) in the early church—citing Pliny, Apostolical Constitutions, fathers and councils—and tracing decline and later revivals.

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