missioner
/ˈmɪʃ(ə)nə
/noun
1A person in charge of a religious or charitable mission.The missioner for multicultural ministries in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles, put it another way: ‘In a lot of mainline churches the issues are race and class.’...
- The Bradford Diocesan missioner responsible for outreach said he was impressed.
2A missionary.That's one reason why the Episcopal Church established a full-time missioner to CEOs and business ‘strivers’ here two years ago....
- I remember the mixture of fascination and terror I felt as a child listening to the Redemptorist missioners in my local Catholic Church describing the afterlife for those who died in the state of sin.
- It was also a fitting tribute to the French missioners of the nineteenth century who had built the church- their presence came alive for Kiely and his wife not in the stones with which they built, but in a simple Christmas hymn.
