Phoebe Was Not A Deacon - Change My Mind Several times over the last few weeks, I have been asked about Phoebe and whether or not she was a deacon in the sense of the Biblical office. And then there was one sad example where when I mentioned how powerfully God used some of the Biblical deacons in the New Testament that someone shocked me by adding, “and some of those were women”. I was immediately taken aback by the comment and I asked, do you mean Phoebe? The person nonchala