APOSTLE Synonyms

• a diplomat of the highest rank; accredited as representative from one country to another

• an informal representative

• a clergyman or other person in religious orders

• a diplomat having less authority than an ambassador

• someone sent on a mission to represent the interests of someone else

• a brief stanza concluding certain forms of poetry

• a preacher of the Christian gospel

• (when capitalized) any of the spiritual leaders who are assumed to be authors of the Gospels in the New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John

• a person who carries a message

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

• a person appointed to a high office in the government

• a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

• the job of a head of a government department

• attend to the wants and needs of others

• work as a minister

• relating to or connected to a religious mission

• someone who attempts to convert others to a particular doctrine or program

• someone sent on a mission--especially a religious or charitable mission to a foreign country

• only the rose-colored starlings; in some classifications considered a separate genus

• a person authorized to conduct religious worship

• someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel

• any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people