"acolyte" is a correct word in written English.
It can be used to refer to someone who assists or follows another person, such as an assistant priest in a church. Example: The acolyte followed the priest as they entered the sanctuary.
In 1972 Pope Paul VI issued the apostolic letter Ministeria quaedam ("Certain Ministries"), which abolished the major order of subdeacon and all minor orders and created the lay liturgical ministries of lector and acolyte.
The narrator, Mizoguchi, a young Zen acolyte, is alienated from the world around him; born physically unattractive and frail and into bleak poverty, he stutters badly and holds himself aloof from others.
He also became an acolyte of manga creator Katsuhiro Otomo (of Akira fame), who recommended him to direct Perfect Blue.
When McClellan did not pursue Lee as quickly as Lincoln and Halleck thought he should, he was replaced in command by Ambrose E. Burnside, an acolyte of McClellan who had been an ineffective corps commander at Antietam.
A fictionalized account of the actual torching of a Kyōto temple by a disturbed Buddhist acolyte in 1950, the novel reflects Mishima's preoccupations with beauty and death.
After his death in Greece, Jakob's legacy is pursued by his young friend and acolyte Ben, a professor obsessed by literature, meteorology, and the trauma of the Holocaust brought to Canada by his survivor parents.
Two of them were placed on the altar for the mass, and two others were carried by acolytes (light bearers).
The solemn high mass was entirely sung and was performed by at least three major officers (celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon), assisted by many acolytes and ministers; the low mass was spoken and conducted by a single priest and a server or two.
However, many of Orridge's acolytes were alienated when their guru abandoned the "dark side" for the ecstatic trance dancing and "positivity" of the acid house scene in 1988.
Surplice, white outer vestment worn by clergymen, acolytes, choristers, or other participants in Roman Catholic and in Anglican, Lutheran, and other Protestant religious services.
Verdi was thus able to develop in parallel the comedy involving Falstaff and his acolytes on one side and Mistress Quickly and her friends on the other, as well as the darker undertones of the scenes involving the jealous Ford, and the lyrical development of the love-interest of Fenton and Nannetta.
