Evangelist

Evangelist can refer to:

Religion

• one of the Four Evangelists, the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels in the New Testament
• a Christian who explains his or her beliefs to a non-Christian and thereby participates in Evangelism
• Evangelist (Latter Day Saints), an office in the ministry of certain denominations in the Latter Day Saint movement
  • Presiding Patriarch, a leadership office in certain Latter Day Saint denominations that may also be referred to as the Presiding Evangelist
  • Quorum of Seventy Evangelists, a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)
• Evangelicalism, Christian theological view emphasizing personal conversion and the authority of the Bible.

Music

• Evangelist (Bach), the term for the tenor part in oratorios and Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach who narrates the Bible words in recitative, namely in the Christmas Oratorio, the St John Passion and the St Matthew Passion

Other

• The Evangelists, a 1992 play by Romanian author Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
• The Evangelists (band), an Irish rock band
• The Three Evangelists, a 1995 award-winning novel by French author Fred Vargas
• Technology evangelist, a person who attempts to build a critical mass of support for a given technology