protodeacon

At this point, he became the cardinal protodeacon.

He was elevated to the cardinalate in 2003 and is the current Cardinal Protodeacon.

In such an event, the announcement is made by the next senior Deacon, who has thus succeeded as Protodeacon.

As a result, the Cardinal protodeacon's privilege of crowning a new pope has effectively ceased.

The senior deacon of a cathedral or principal church may be awarded the title of protodeacon.

It has happened in the past that the Cardinal Protodeacon has himself been the person elected pope.

The protodeacon, as if to remind people of the value of his time, kept coughing impatiently, making the glass in the windows rattle.

From 20 January 1971 until his death, Browne served as Cardinal Protodeacon.

The protodeacon carries the censer.

In the Slavic tradition a deacon may be awarded the doubled-orarion even if he is not a protodeacon or archdeacon.

At the time of his death he had been Protodeacon of the Holy Roman Church.

Then the Third and Sixth Hours begin and the protodeacon begins a censing of the entire temple.

Meanwhile, the protodeacon swings the censer and says the concluding verses of Psalm 25:

The Chairman of the Trustees is Protodeacon Peter Scorer.

The senior cardinal deacon, the protodeacon, removed the pope's mitre and placed the tiara on his head with the words:

Ranking above Hierodeacon is an Archdeacon or Protodeacon.

In the Slavic usage a protodeacon or archdeacon wears a distinctive orarion (deacon's stole).

A protodeacon has precedence when serving with other deacons, regardless of the date of his own ordination to the diaconate.

Deacons may have the title of hierodeacon (a monk who has been ordained to the deaconate), archdeacon or protodeacon.

On November 3 he was solemnly crowned by Protodeacon Innocenzo Cibo.

Michael's mother, Vera Grigorievna, was the daughter of a protodeacon and later priest in the city of Zhitomir.

Five days later he was crowned in the Vatican Basilica by protodeacon Andrea Montalto.

Instead of saying his own vesting prayers, the prayers are recited aloud for him by the protodeacon, and the bishop venerates the icons.

Hoyos' successor as Cardinal protodeacon is Agostino Cacciavillan.

In virtue of his position as Cardinal Protodeacon, he both announced Pope John's election and later crowned him on 4 November 1958.