Originally Posted by kceaster

Although we have recorded for us when Philip was ordained a deacon, we cannot assume that he wasn't later ordained as an elder. It's probably safer to err on the side that he had been ordained as an elder previous to baptizing the eunuch than to assume that the sacraments were carried out by deacons.

Even so, if he was a deacon at the time, we can't necessarily assume that it was normative. It's the old addage of not deriving doctrine from the book of Acts.

In Christ,

KC