office
Father Deacon
the deacon
also: отец дьякон, дьякон
The seminary-trained clergyman to whom the baffled sexton finally hands off the tangled prayer slip, on the theory that his education fits him to sort the living from the dead.
Reading notes
- The Rigmarole §68 Father Deacon
The next clergyman up the parish hierarchy from a sexton, seminary-trained; the sexton passes off the tangled prayer slip to him rather than sort out the living from the dead himself.