Synonyms of missioner

missioner

noun

as in missionary

a person who is sent especially to a foreign country to do religious work (such as converting people to the religion or ministering to the sick)

The church has a program in which volunteers spend one year abroad as missioners.

Related Words

• missionary
• priest
• bishop
• monk
• chaplain
• apostle
• pastor
• deacon
• minister
• soldier
• evangelist
• preacher
• clergyman
• friar
• reverend
• rector
• revivalist
• churchman
• religious
• diocesan
• clerical
• ecclesiastic
• student
• pope
• archbishop
• monastic
• prelate
• deaconess
• mendicant
• cleric
• proselytizer
• dean
• padre
• clerk
• abbot
• vicar
• priestess
• curé
• presbyter
• parson
• divine
• confessor
• clergyperson
• dominie
• abbé
• curate
• father
• oblate
• shepherd
• scholar
• monsignor
• advocate
• clergywoman
• archpriest
• loyalist
• supporter
• faithful
• Holy Joe
• protégé
• disciple
• high priestess
• champion
• high priest
• devotee
• worshipper
• pupil
• sky pilot
• ideologist
• fan
• zealot
• enthusiast
• adherent
• acolyte
• sectarian
• admirer
• votary
• idolater
• ideologue
• follower
• backer
• convert
• partisan
• cultist
• liege man
• votarist
• epigone

Dissimilar Words

• traitor
• renegade
• defector
• leader
• apostate
• turncoat
• layman
• layperson
• secular
• lector
• lay reader
• coryphaeus

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of missioner

In 1976, the residence was redesigned as a retirement home for church missioners. — George Avalos, Mercury News, 10 June 2026

Kelley Hudlow, missioner for clergy formation for the diocese, told NBC affiliate WVTM of Birmingham soon after the shooting that church leaders were trying to learn more. — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 17 June 2022

After 15 years of doing mission promotion and spending time as a missioner in Tanzania East Africa, by special agreement with the Missionaries of the Holy Apostles and the Archbishop of Hartford, Fr. — courant.com, 23 July 2019