. >> and everyone knows about saint steven but i didn't connect him until you mentioned the de act co nats. >> steven be came our first martyr on that and we don't know a lot, but he was also doing some preaching and he was very adamant and it was because of his preaching that he was eventually martyred. >> in jerusalem, these deacons were at work. they are namend in the acts of the apostles, the 7 men. do we flow the history of the other men? >> we know a little about philip a story about philip an ethiopian but others we don't know as much about as to what they did or where they went. >> now, we understand that the offices of -- in the church, became organized and distinguished over the early centuries, right? and there were three main categories? >> three main categories. >> tell us about that. >> bishops. >> you have to speak greek to get this program but a pes scho pals. >> which our term for bishops. priests and then deacons orser vants. >> and these were, are there any other notable deacons in the early history? >> in the very early history, we have lawrence in rome, who was asked t