References to women deacons in the writings of the following:

Pliny the Younger

Origen

St.Basil

St. Gregory of Nyssa

Emperor Theodosius

Pelagius

Sozomenos,

Pseudo Ignatius

Theodore of Mopsuestia

Theodoret of Cyrrhus

Severus of Antioch

Emperor Justinian

Joannes Moschus

Didascalia Apostolorum

Apostolic Constitutions