List of over 100 women deacons we know by name:

Women deacons of Asia Minor,  Greece,  Italy,  Palestine and Egypt,  Armenia and Syria

Ancient Frescos: Cerula and Bitalia

References to women deacon in early writings:

Ecclesiastical Canons of the Apostles (ca.250 AD?)

Canon 19 of First Council of Nicea (325 AD)

First Synod of Dvin (327 AD)

Apostolic Contitutions (375-380 AD)

Code of Emperor Justinian I  (529-564 AD)

Sinai Codex gr.956 (10th century)

Bodleian Codex E.5.13  (1132 AD)

Xenophon Codex gr.163  (14th century)

Cairo Codex gr.149-104 (14th century)

Church Councils in which women deacons are mentioned

References to women deacons in the writings of the following:

St.Basil,  St. Gregory of Nyssa,  Joannes Moschus,  Origen,  Pelagius,  Pliny the Younger,  Pseudo Ignatius,  Severus of Antioch,  Sozomenos,  Theodore of Mopsuestia,  Theodoret of Cyrrhus,  Emperor Theodosius.

Deaconesses in Late Antique Gaul by Staff of Natonal Catholic Reporter

Deaconesses in Late Antique Gaul by Matthew Smyth

Timeline of popes of the first millenium and women deacons

History of women deacons in the Bible and Apostolic times

Differences between women deacons in the East and in the West

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