There’s only two institutional ministries: acolyte and lector. The minor orders were porter, lector, acolyte, exorcist, subdeacon, and a man was ordained to them in the pre-Vatican II Church.
** An in the eastern Byzantine Catholic Church, territorial laws for the USA have:
Canon 327
** §1. Men who are properly prepared can be ordained to the offices of acolyte, lector cantor and subdeacon, who are minor clerics.
§2. Minor clerics will be governed by proper statute issued by competent authority.
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