intercessors
Those who intervene
Intercessors are people who intervene on behalf of others, typically by praying or pleading for them.
The term appears most often in religious contexts, where an intercessor prays to God for someone else's benefit: The church appointed intercessors to pray for the sick.
More broadly, any advocate or mediator who speaks for another can be called an intercessor.
Formal request or defense
- entreatyEarnest, urgent request
- appealFormal review request
- requestFormal act of seeking
- beseechingUrgently pleading for something
imploration · supplicant · exhortation · adjuration · solicitation · remonstration · petitioner · applicant
One who resolves disputes
- conciliatorOne who restores harmony
- go-betweenAgent connecting separate parties
- liaisonConnector between groups
- peacemakerConflict resolution agent
facilitator · mediator · broker · intermediary · middleman · reconciler · buffer · channel
Public cause supporter
- pleaderOne who argues formally
- defenderOne who guards another
- championTop competitor, or advocate
- supporterOne who backs another
spokesperson · protector · patron · ally · representative · counsel · proponent · backer
Address to deity
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- saintsCanonized religious figures
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
- priestOne who performs sacraments
chaplain · shaman · blessing · invocation · devotion · litany · novena · orison
plea
Formal request or defense
beseeching · imploration · supplicant · exhortation · adjuration · solicitation · remonstration · petitioner · applicant · claimant
arbitrator
One who resolves disputes
- conciliatorOne who restores harmony
- go-betweenAgent connecting separate parties
- liaisonConnector between groups
peacemaker · facilitator · mediator · broker · intermediary · middleman · reconciler · buffer · channel · communicator
advocate
Public cause supporter
supporter · spokesperson · protector · patron · ally · representative · counsel · proponent · backer · vindicator
prayer
Address to deity
- supplicationHumble plea for help
- saintsCanonized religious figures
- clergyOrdained religious officials collectively
priest · chaplain · shaman · blessing · invocation · devotion · litany · novena · orison · altar
ambassador
Official foreign representative
- envoyAccredited diplomatic representative
- emissaryAgent sent abroad
- delegateEntrust authority to another
consul · attaché · diplomatic · negotiator · treaty · summit · accord · talks · parley · bilateral
- angelsarchangels, Michael, Gabriel, seraphim, archangel
- mediatorsmediator, mediators, arbitrator, arbitrators, negotiator
- healersnurse, doctor, physician, surgeon, medic
- holy peoplesaint, saints, prophet, holy men, martyr
- hagiographysaints' lives, hagiographer, hagiography, vita, vitae
intercessorsprincipals
Chief school administrators
disputants · litigants · adversaries · antagonists · parties
intercessorsaccusers
Those who blame others
condemners · prosecutors · denouncers · inquisitors · persecutors
intercessorsbystanders
People present but uninvolved
obstructors · blockers · saboteurs · hinderers · opponents
- intercessory prayerPlea to God for others