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Sexton
A custodian who cleans and takes care of the church and any other parish buildings. Sextons are typically responsible for maintenance of the buildings and grounds of the parish. Traditionally, the sexton's duties included ringing the church bell, cleaning church fabric, and digging graves.
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Glossary definitions provided courtesy of Church Publishing Incorporated, New York, NY,(All Rights reserved) from "An Episcopal Dictionary of the Church, A User Friendly Reference for Episcopalians," Don S. Armentrout and Robert Boak Slocum, editors. |
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