Tazama chanzo cha Shemasi mkuu

[[File:Протодиакон Владимир Назаркин и архидиакон Андрей Мазур.jpg|thumb|Shemasi wa kwanza Vladimir Nazarkin (kushoto) na shemasi mkuu Andrei Mazur wa [[Kanisa la Kiorthodoksi la Urusi]] katika [[maandamano]].]]
'''Shemasi mkuu''' (kwa [[Kiingereza]]: ''Archdeacon'') ni [[cheo]] cha [[Kanisa|Kikanisa]] katika [[madhehebu]] mbalimbali ya [[Ukristo]]. Kiko chini ya [[askofu]] lakini juu ya vyeo vingine vingi vya [[kleri]]<ref name = "autogenerated79">{{Citation | title = The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | editor-first = FL | editor-last = Cross | place = London | publisher = Oxford University Press | year = 1957 | page = 79}}.</ref> 

Mara nyingi nafasi hiyo imefananishwa na ile ya [[jicho]] (kwa [[Kilatini]]: ''oculus episcopi'', jicho la askofu).<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110210013918/http://www.third-millennium-library.com/MedievalHistory/Cambridge/I/VI-Church.html]</ref>.

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* {{Citation | url = http://nasrani.net/2007/06/14/the-tomb-of-archdeacons-kuravilangadu/ | date = 2007-06-14 | title = Role of Archdeacons, the tomb of Archdeacons and Kappalottam at Kuravilangadu | publisher = Nasrani}}
* {{Citation | url = http://www.srite.de/index?id=2&cikk=84 | title = The Saint Thomas Christians in India from 52 to 1687 AD | publisher = Srite | place = [[Germany|DE]] | access-date = 2021-11-07 | archive-date = 2021-07-11 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210711210117/http://www.srite.de/index?id=2&cikk=84 | dead-url = yes }}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071117234348/http://individual.utoronto.ca/archdeacon/general.html]
* {{Citation | url = http://ayrookuzhiyil.org/ | title = Pakalomattom Ayrookuzhiyil family | access-date = 2021-11-07 | archive-date = 2011-06-24 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110624211654/http://www.ayrookuzhiyil.org/ | dead-url = yes }}
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