Deacons are male. No ordained women. Synod as resolution (6)

In the past Deacons were men. That is still true. That can not be changed despite Pope Francis and Leo selecting people for the Synod who favor women being ordained.

Even if the Synod approved women Deacons the ordination would not be effective even if the ordination were attempted.

From Denzinger's Sources of Catholic Dogma.

 ST. BONIFACE I 418-422


The Primacy and Infallibility of the Roman Pontiff *


[From the epistle (13) "Retro maioribus tuis" to 


Rufus, Bishop of Thessaly, March 11, 422]

110 (2) . . . To the Synod [of Corinth]. . . . . we have directed such writings that all the brethren may know. . . . . that there must be no withdrawal from our judgment. For it has never been allowed that that be discussed again which has once been decided by the Apostolic See.

Council of Chalcedon 451

152  Can. 4 (92). When a deacon is ordained, let the bishop alone, who blesses him, place his hands above his head, because he is consecrated not for the priesthood, but for the ministry.

COUNCIL OF BENEVENTO 1091

The Sacramental Nature of the Diaconate *

356 Can. 1. Let no one be chosen in order of succession into the episcopacy (always and still exclusively men) except one who has been found living religiously in sacred orders. Moreover we call sacred orders the diaconate and the priesthood. Since we read that the early Church had only these, only concerning these do we have the precept of the Apostle.

The Matter and Form of Ordination * 

[From the letter to Olaus, Bishop of Lyons, Dec. 9, 1232]

445 When a priest and deacon are ordained, they receive the imposition of a hand by corporal touch, by the rite introduced by the Apostles; and if this shall be omitted, it must not be partially repeated, but at an established time for conferring orders of this kind, what through error was omitted must be carefully supplied. Moreover, the suspension of hands over the head must be made, when the prayer of ordination is uttered over the head.

EUGENIUS IV 1431-1447

COUNCIL OF FLORENCE 1438-1445

Ecumenical XVII (Union with the Greeks, Armenians, Jacobites) 

Decree for the Armenians * 

[From the Bull "Exultate Deo," Nov. 22, 1439]

701 The sixth sacrament is that of order, the matter of which is that through whose transmission the order is conferred: * just as the priesthood is transmitted through the offering of the chalice with wine and of the paten with bread; the diaconate, however, by the giving of the book of the Gospels; but the subdiaconate by the giving of the empty chalice with the empty paten superimposed; and similarly with regard to the others by allotment of things pertaining to their ministry. The form of such priesthood is: Accipe potestatem offerendi sacrificium in ecclesia pro vivis et mortuis, in nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sancti.And thus with regard to the forms of the other orders, as is contained extensively in the Roman pontifical. The ordinary minister of this sacrament is the bishop. The effect is increase of grace, so that the one ordained be a worthy minister. (Only men are capable of receiving ordination)