Complex sentence: Two types of monastic women were typically consecrated to the female diaconate in the early and middle Byzantine period: abbesses and nuns with liturgical functions, as well as the wives of men who were being raised to the episcopacy.
Split into simpler sentences: Two types of monastic women were typically consecrated to the female diaconate in the early and middle Byzantine period. Abbesses and nuns with liturgical functions, as well as the wives of men who were being raised to the episcopacy.