97. Justinian. Novell. ciii. Sixty presbyters or priests,
one hundred deacons, forty deaconesses, ninety sub-deacons,
one hundred and ten readers, twenty-five chanters, and one
hundred doorkeepers; in all, five hundred and twenty-five.
This moderate number was fixed by the emperor to relieve the
distress of the church, which had been involved in debt and
usury by the expense of a much higher establishment.