Deacon
Deacon is the Latin form of the ecclesiastical title of deacon .
Since they held this office, deacon is part of the name of:
- Adelbertus diaconus, writer of a Vita Heinrici II. Imperatoris ; see Adalbald II.
- Johannes Diaconus (6th century) , author of a letter to a senarius ( epistula ad Senarium virum illustrem )
- Johannes Deacon (Egyptian) , chronicler, Coptic Christian and author of the life of the Patriarch Michael (approx. 768–770)
- John the Deacon (Neapolitan) (9th / 10th century), chronicler, author of a Chronicle of Naples ( Gesta episcoporum Neapolitanorum )
- Johannes Hymmonides (also Johannes Diaconus ) (9th century), Roman clergyman and writer, biographer of Pope Gregory the Great
- Johannes Diaconus (chronicler) (10th / 11th century), chronicler, author of one of the oldest chronicles of Venice
- John the Deacon (Byzantine) (11th century), Byzantine writer, wrote about the veneration of saints
- Johannes Diaconus (Lateran Basilica) (12th century), Roman clergyman and chronicler, served in the Lateran Basilica
- Leo Diaconus (* around 950), Byzantine historian
- Paulus Deacon (or Paul Warnefried; * 725/730, † 797/799), Longobard historian and monk
- Petrus Diaconus (also called Bibliothecarius; * after 1100; † 1158), librarian of the Montecassino monastery
