{{Short description|Anglican church usher}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2022}} {{Use Oxford spelling|date=March 2022}} {{Redirect-distinguish|Sidesman|Sideman (disambiguation){{!}}Sideman}} {{Portal|Christianity}} A '''sidesperson''', also known as a '''sidesman''', '''usher''', or '''assistant churchwarden''',<ref name="Canon E2">{{Cite web|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/more/policy-and-thinking/canons-church-england/section-e|title=Canon E2 Of sidesmen or assistants to the churchwardens|accessdate=2019-02-18|publisher=Church of England|year=2019}}</ref> in Anglican churches is responsible for greeting members of the congregation, overseeing seating arrangements in church, making the congregation queue for communion at the altar in an orderly way, and for taking the collection.<ref name="Clements2018">{{cite book |last= Clements|first= Matthew |title= Rotas, Rules and Rectors - How to Thrive being a Churchwarden|year= 2018|publisher= Matador|location= London|isbn=978-1-78901-631-4|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GH51DwAAQBAJ}}</ref> In England they are usually appointed by the parochial church council and receive guidance in their duties from the churchwardens.<ref name="Canon E2" />
In the Anglican Church of Southern Africa "Sidesmen may be appointed in any Parish to perform such duties as the Parish Council shall determine."<ref name="Canon29">{{Cite web|url=http://anglicanchurchsa.org/view_caod.asp?pg=caod_item&caod_opt=item&ItemID=29|title=Canon 29 Of Churchwardens and Chapelwardens|accessdate=2013-10-23|publisher=Anglican Church of Southern Africa|year=2013}}</ref>
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