deacon.

[giltbrookian]

Can anyone confirm or indeed dispute that in the Church of England that a Deacon is the lowest rank of ordained minister.

[Bluebell]

http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Defi nitions/Church.html
Just found this, hope it's a help.

[pega]

A Deacon is ordained and is lowest position , after training
in theology the person is ordained as a deacon, and this is for one year. after the year they are ordained as a priest.
You can tell if someone is a Deacon as they wear the stole across the chest ends tied together and when they become a priest this is worn like a scarf around the neck with both ends hanging down. A deacon works as a curate with a vicar or rector for the year, and then works way up to get own parish. Hopes this helps.
A further piece of information at a high mass when 3 priests celebrate the deacon wears stole across chest this is because deacon is an assistant,

[giltbrookian]

One of the attributes of the Answerbank is that not only is it a means by which you can authenticate answers to queries but invariably you learn much more than the original question.
This is certainly the case here because I now find that I can pose at least 5 more questions in a quiz that I am setting.
My sincere thanks therefore to Bluebell and pega.