“The Apostles had laid their hands on him, and bestowed upon him the gift of deaconal orders”
What, is there a spiritual gift to be a waiter?
Acts 6:2-6, “Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables. Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business. But we will give ourselves continually to prayer, and to the ministry of the word. And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch: Whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands on them.”
I don’t see where they were given the gift of Apostle, Prophet, Evangelist, Pastor/Teacher. I do see where Philip’s daughters (Acts 21:8-9) had the gift of prophecy but do not see where they had hands laid on them to receive the gift.
There is a sacramental gift given to deacon through the laying on of hands by the bishop. The deacon is not merely a "waiter". As St. Ignatius (d. 107 AD) says, "And, as ministers of the mysteries [i.e. the sacraments] of Jesus Christ, the deacons should please all in every way they can; for they are not merely ministers of food and drink, but the servants of the Church of God." (Epistle to the Trallians Chap. 2) The deaconate in the New Covenant corresponds the Levite of the Old Covenant.
-A8