evangelist

Someone who strongly supports a belief or cause and tries to persuade others to support it too.

• He is an evangelist for cycling.
• The religious evangelist urged the crowd to embrace his faith.
• Her enthusiasm turned her into an evangelist for public libraries.

How to use it: an evangelist for something (She became an evangelist for healthy eating.)

Similar words: advocate, champion, enthusiast

Common phrases: evangelist for something, religious evangelist, enthusiastic evangelist

Someone employed to persuade people to use a particular technology.

• The company hired a technology evangelist.
• Their developer evangelist demonstrates the software at conferences.
• Two evangelists helped programmers learn about the new platform.

Similar words: technology advocate

Common phrases: developer evangelist, technology evangelist, product evangelist

Someone who first brings the Christian message to a particular town or region.

• He was the first evangelist to reach the island.
• The town honours the evangelist who brought Christianity there.
• Early evangelists carried the gospel into remote regions.

How to use it: evangelist of a place (The monk is remembered as the evangelist of the region.)

Similar words: missionary

Common phrases: early evangelist, first evangelist, evangelist of something

A senior Christian leader who is the head of a major church.

• The old chronicle calls the church’s patriarch an evangelist.
• The evangelist held authority over the region’s bishops.
• Clergy gathered to hear the evangelist’s ruling.

Similar words: patriarch

Common phrases: church evangelist, the evangelist, evangelist’s authority