televangelist

English

Etymology

Blend of television +‎ evangelist

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɛlɪˈvænd͡ʒəlɪst/

Noun

televangelist (plural televangelists)

1. A religious minister (often a Christian priest or minister) who devotes a large portion of his or her ministry to television broadcasts to a regular viewing audience.
   • 2013, Kate Bowler, Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

     Pastor Walton had spent several years learning from the televangelist host of Success-N-Life, Robert Tilton, at his Bible school in Texas.

Synonyms

• television evangelist
• TV evangelist

Related terms

• radio evangelism
• radio evangelist
• televangelism
• television evangelism
• TV evangelism

Translations

televangelist

• Finnish: televisioevankelista (fi)
• French: télévangéliste (fr) m or f
• German: Fernsehprediger (de) m, Fernsehpredigerin (de) f, Fernsehevangelist m, Fernsehevangelistin f, TV-Evangelist m, TV-Evangelistin f
• Hungarian: televíziós hittérítő (hu), televíziós hitszónok
• Italian: telepredicatore m
• Polish: teleewangelista (pl) m
• Russian: телепропове́дник (ru) m (telepropovédnik), телеевангели́ст (ru) m (telejevangelíst)
• Swedish: tv-predikant (sv) c