evangelist

fervent défenseur, évangéliste

Personne qui soutient avec enthousiasme une croyance ou une cause et cherche à y rallier les autres.

En anglais simple : Someone who strongly supports a belief or cause and tries to persuade others to support it too.

• He is an evangelist for cycling.
• The religious evangelist urged the crowd to embrace his faith.
• Her enthusiasm turned her into an evangelist for public libraries.

Comment l'utiliser : an evangelist for something (She became an evangelist for healthy eating.)

Synonymes : advocate, champion, enthusiast

Expressions courantes : evangelist for something, religious evangelist, enthusiastic evangelist

évangéliste technologique

Personne employée pour convaincre les autres d’utiliser une technologie particulière.

En anglais simple : Someone employed to persuade people to use a particular technology.

• The company hired a technology evangelist.
• Their developer evangelist demonstrates the software at conferences.
• Two evangelists helped programmers learn about the new platform.

Synonymes : technology advocate

Expressions courantes : developer evangelist, technology evangelist, product evangelist

évangélisateur

Personne qui apporte la première le message chrétien dans une ville ou une région.

En anglais simple : Someone who first brings the Christian message to a particular town or region.

• He was the first evangelist to reach the island.
• The town honours the evangelist who brought Christianity there.
• Early evangelists carried the gospel into remote regions.

Comment l'utiliser : evangelist of a place (The monk is remembered as the evangelist of the region.)

Synonymes : missionary

Expressions courantes : early evangelist, first evangelist, evangelist of something

patriarche

Haut responsable chrétien à la tête d’une grande Église.

En anglais simple : A senior Christian leader who is the head of a major church.

• The old chronicle calls the church’s patriarch an evangelist.
• The evangelist held authority over the region’s bishops.
• Clergy gathered to hear the evangelist’s ruling.

Synonymes : patriarch

Expressions courantes : church evangelist, the evangelist, evangelist’s authority