755 AD
| Source: Agnellus, Liber pontificalis ecclesiae Ravennae, De S. Sergio | |
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Iste laicus fuit et sponsam habuit. Quam post regimen ecclesiae suscepit, eam Eufimiam sponsam suam diaconissam consecravit. | "He was a layman and had a wife. When he took upon himself responsibility for the [local] Church [as bishop], he consecrated his wife Eufimia as a deaconess." |
For more information on such clergy wives, see here.
The ordination rite for women deacons used in Italy at the time is known to us from the socalled Hadrianum Sacramentary of 786 AD.
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