as in missionary
a person who is sent especially to a foreign country to do religious work (such as converting people to the religion or ministering to the sick)
The church has a program in which volunteers spend one year abroad as missioners.
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Recent Examples of missioner
Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more.
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Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.
—al, 1 Dec. 2020
After 15 years of doing mission promotion and spending time as a missioner in Tanzania East Africa, by special agreement with the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles and the Archbishop of Hartford, Fr.
—courant.com, 23 July 2019
Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022
Eby will continue to serve as outreach missioner at the Church of the Nativity and as priest-in-charge at St. Timothy’s Church in Athens.
—al, 1 Dec. 2020
After 15 years of doing mission promotion and spending time as a missioner in Tanzania East Africa, by special agreement with the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles and the Archbishop of Hartford, Fr.
—courant.com, 23 July 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for missioner
Noun
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His maternal grandparents were medical missionaries in Liberia, helping to ignite Fuller’s interest in medicine, Branson said.—
Kristen Rogers,
CNN,
27 Feb. 2025
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The wife of a Minnesota missionary killed in the African country of Angola last year has been charged with his murder, the lead pastor of the Lakes Area Vineyard Church in Detroit Lakes confirmed in a letter to his congregation.—
Muri Assunção,
New York Daily News,
26 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Catholic priests fiercely denounced Evangelina's efforts.—
Laura Gómez,
Scientific American,
26 Mar. 2025
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Then Vincent disappears, and Jérémie finds himself at the center of a police investigation and being eyed suspiciously by the locals, including a dour, snooping priest (Jacques Develay); a stolid, schlubby ex-farmer named Walter (David Ayala); and Vincent’s wife, Annie (Tatiana Spivakova).—
Richard Brody,
The New Yorker,
21 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Some clutched rosaries, others took selfies or touched the protective glass in front of the seemingly sleeping young man, who died of leukemia at 15 in 2006 and is generating a devotion that astonishes even Assisi’s bishop.—
Time,
Time,
27 Mar. 2025
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Last month, days before his hospitalization, Pope Francis penned a letter to U.S. bishops that criticized the Trump administration’s mass deportation plans.—
Jonathan Bullington,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Mar. 2025
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“Missioner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/missioner. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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