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In the Methodist Church of Great Britain, deacons are members of an order called the Methodist Diaconal Order. The MDO is both a religious order and an order of ministry. One distinctive feature of the Methodist ecclesiology is that a deacon has a permanent ministry and remains as a deacon – it is not a transitional step toward becoming a presbyter. The diaconate is seen as an equal but offering something different from that of the presbyteral ministry.
Currently the order reports to have about 280 deacons, who follow a common Rule of Life.
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