itinerant preacher
Roving religious speaker
An itinerant preacher is a minister or evangelist who travels from place to place rather than serving a fixed congregation.
The practice has roots in early Christianity and became prominent in American frontier religion, where circuit riders visited scattered settlements.
The itinerant preacher held revivals in three counties that summer.
- sermonizerOne who preaches tediously
- fire and brimstoneWrathful divine punishment imagery
- missionaryReligious outreach worker
- evangelistZealous advocate or preacher
- exhorterOne who urges strongly
friar · circuit rider · prayer leader · apostle · revivalist · tent revival · gospel tent · catechist · proselytizer · minister · wanderer · pastor · baptizer · pilgrim · roamer · traveler · educator · wayfarer
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- Colonial Clergyparson, rector, vicar, curate, reverend
- evangelistsevangelist, evangelists, missionary, revivalist, revivalists
- holy wandererswandering monk, pilgrim, mendicant, sadhu, fakir
- preachersevangelist, minister, revivalist, parson, homilist
- Protestant clergyreverend, parson, ordained minister, pastor, senior pastor
itinerant preacherparish priest
Local church leader
village priest · chaplain · monastic · anchorite · hermit
itinerant preacherbishop
Diocesan clergy head
archbishop · monsignor · cardinal · pope · prelate
itinerant preachertraveling salesman
Itinerant commercial representative
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