LIKEWISE, if a deacon have fallen into the same sin, let him have the rank of a minister.
ANCIENT EPITOME TO CANON X.
A deacon found in the same crime shall remain a minister (<greek>uphreths</greek>).
HEFELE.
By ministers (<greek>uphretai</greek>) are meant inferior officers of the Church--the so-called minor orders, often including the subdeacons.
This canon is in the Corpus Juris Canonici, Gratian's Decretum, Pars II., Causa xv., Quaest. viii., united with canon ix., and in the following curious form: "Similiter et diaconus, si in eodem culpae genere fuerit involutus, sese a ministerio cohibebit."