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A commissioned Evangelist in the Anglican Communion is a lay person who has received professional training in Christian outreach ministry, and been commissioned by episcopal authority. In practice, almost all those formally admitted to the office of Evangelist are members of the Anglican mission and outreach agency, the Church Army .
In the Latter Day Saint movement, an evangelist is an ordained office of the ministry. In some denominations of the movement, an evangelist is referred to as a patriarch . However, the latter term was deprecated by the Community of Christ after the church began ordaining women to the priesthood .
In the Community of Christ, which was formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an evangelist is an office in the Melchizedec Order of the priesthood. Previous to the 1980s, Evangelists were known both as Patriarchs and Evangelists.
The Evangelist, Bishop, Apostle and Prophet are specialized priesthood offices within the High Priesthood. The names of the priesthood offices in Community of Christ are similar to those of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , of which it shares a common 14-year history .
The word evangelist comes from the Koine Greek word εὐανγέλιον (transliterated as euangelion) via Latinised evangelium as used in the canonical titles of the Four Gospels, authored by (or attributed to) Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (also known as the Four Evangelists).
In addition to his regular duties as diocesan bishop, he presides over meetings of all the bishops in a province. Sometimes a metropolitan may also be the head of an autocephalous, sui iuris, or autonomous church when the number of adherents of that tradition are small. In the Latin Rite, metropolitans are always archbishops; in many Eastern ...
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
All Souls Church, Langham Place is an evangelical congregation in the Church of England.. Evangelical Anglicanism or Evangelical Episcopalianism is a tradition or church party within Anglicanism that shares affinity with broader evangelicalism.