The Decree on Eastern Catholic Churches (Orientalium ecclesiarum), #17

“The holy council wishes the institution of the permanent diaconate to be restored where it has fallen into disuse, in order that the ancient discipline of the Sacrament of Orders may flourish once more in the Eastern Churches.”

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