Assertion: deacon | /r/HasProperty | levite
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text: The Church historian Philip Schaff concludes: “When the bishop was raised above the presbyter (elder) and the presbyter became priest, the deacon was regarded as Levite, and his primary function of care for the poor was lost in the function of assisting the priest in the subordinate parts of public worship and the administration of the sacraments.