“That’s a point worth thinking about, except... it doesn’t apply in this case, because deacons are not pastors.”
And in the New Testament has reference to them
https://www.gty.org/resources/bible-qna/BQ060713/was-phoebe-a-deaconess
https://www.openbible.info/topics/deaconess.
Am decon is not the same as an elder or pastor
Thank you for those links. “FReepers in the know!”