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This book is a key contribution to the historical investigation into the place of women deacons in the early Church ordered by Pope Francis in 2020. What did women deacons do in the early church? This study is a contribution to resolving this topical question through evaluating the tasks of female deacons in the Apostolic Constitutions. This fourth-century document is the largest among the so-called ancient church orders. Pylvänäinen divides the tasks of female deacons into three categories: liturgical, charitable and communicative. She analyses the individual concepts and verses within their contexts, paying special attention to the context of the document as a whole within the sphere of Jewish Christian interaction and from the viewpoint of the sources the compiler has used in remoulding the document.

Women in Christianity --- Women clergy --- Clergywomen --- Female clergy --- Women as ministers --- Women in the ministry --- Women ministers --- Clergy --- History --- Apostolic constitutions. --- Constitutiones apostolorum --- Diatagai tōn hagiōn apostolōn --- Constitutiones Apostolorum