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Answer for the clue "Some church officials ", 7 letters:
deacons

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Deacons is the Hong Kong's oldest and largest independent, full service top-tier law firm , with three offices in Mainland China , in Shanghai , Beijing and Guangzhou . It benefits from the long-established relationships with Hong Kong’s business community, ...

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n. (plural of deacon English)

Usage examples of deacons.

A pious churchman might, who hoped to see them become deacons and fraters in their turn who could minister to their countryfolk and thus bring their heathen relatives into the Light.

Most monks turned away explicitly from the world and that included the ministrations of deacons, who were of course all women.

First the anxious deacons emerged, carrying the holy relics from the cathedral.

Men dragging carts, women burdened by heavy packs, two ragged deacons, laden donkeys, and now and again a rich woman with oxen drawing her wagon and a small retinue of servants following behind.

Hanna had never stood in any choir, never ventured beyond the Hearth into any sanctuary where deacons and clerics meditated in silence and communed with God.

In such places deacons slept, and the church housed its store of precious vestments and vessels for the service.

Then again, if their speculations were accurate and there had been a hole in the yard where Talbot was buried, the church deacons would have covered it up with fresh grass hurriedly.

Hearth into any sanctuary where deacons and clerics meditated in silence and communed with God.