title: List of people known as the Deacon
text: # List of people known as the Deacon
  
  "The Deacon" is a Christian epithet applied to:
  
  * Arsenius the Great (died 445), Roman imperial tutor and saint who became an anchorite in Egypt
  * Avakum the Deacon (1794–1814), Serbian Orthodox monk, martyr and saint
  * Benjamin the Deacon and Martyr (329–c. 424), deacon martyred in Persia
  * Bermudo I of Asturias (c. 750–797), King of Asturias
  * Habib the Deacon (died 308? or 310?), Syriac Christian martyr
  * James the Deacon (died after 671), Roman deacon and saint
  * John the Deacon (disambiguation)
  * Leo the Deacon (c. 950–?), Byzantine Greek historian and chronicler
  * Nicanor the Deacon (died 76), martyr and one of the Seven Deacons
  * Nicolas the Deacon, claimed by some of the early Christian Church Fathers to be the author of the heresy and sect of Nicolaism
  * Paul the Deacon (c. 720s–796, 797, 798 or 799), Benedictine monk, scribe and historian of the Lombards
  * Paulinus the Deacon (fl. 411–422), notary of Ambrose of Milan and his biographer
  * Peter the Deacon (fl. 1115–1159), librarian of the abbey of Montecassino and continuator of the Chronicon monasterii Casinensis (Monte Cassino Chronicle)
  * Vincent of Saragossa (died. c. 304), saint and martyr
  