Diaconado de mujeres en el cristianismo primitivo Oriente, siglos i al v dC

Women played a leading role in Early Christianity. Amont the different ways of this protagonism, the diaconate stands out above all, for its transversal nature and for its duration, as it appears already in tis beginnings, it will reach its greatest splendor in the fourth and fifth centuries, it would gradually disappear from the VIthe  century on, and will be reduced to a marginal phenomenon from 12th century. In this article, after a brief introduction to these other forms of protagonism, the main references to this ministry in the Eastern part of the Church will be studied up to the fith century, in order to dicover its development, functions, and characteristics.