Evangelist

Evangelist may refer to:

Religion

• Four Evangelists, the authors of the canonical Christian Gospels
• Evangelism, publicly preaching the Gospel with the intention of spreading the teachings of Jesus Christ
• Evangelist (Anglican Church), a commissioned office in the ministry of many Anglican provinces
• Evangelist (Latter Day Saints), an ordained office in the ministry in the Latter Day Saint movement
• Evangelist, a character in John Bunyan's 1678 book The Pilgrim's Progress
• Presiding Patriarch, a church-wide leadership office within the priesthood of Latter Day Saints
• Quorum of Seventy Evangelists, a leadership body in The Church of Jesus Christ (Bickertonite)

Music

• Evangelist (Bach), tenor part in Bach's oratorios and Passions who narrates the Bible
• The narrator in works by other composers, e.g. Heinrich Schütz's Weinachtshistorie, Matthäuspassion, Lukaspassion
• Der Evangelimann, an opera by Austrian composer Wilhelm Kienzl
• The Evangelist (Robert Forster album)

Other

• The Evangelist (film), a 1924 German silent drama film
• The Evangelist, journal of Walter Scott
• The Evangelists, a 1992 play by Romanian author Alina Mungiu-Pippidi
• The Three Evangelists, a 1995 novel by French author Fred Vargas
• Evangelistas Islets, at the west mouth of the Strait of Magellan
• Technology evangelist, a person who attempts to build support for a given technology

See also

• Evangelicalism
• Evangelical Lutheran