televangelist
noun
tel·evan·ge·list
ˌte-li-ˈvan-jə-list 
: an evangelist who conducts regularly televised religious programs
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On Super Bowl Sunday, a few hours before kickoff, a shooter armed with an AR-15 and multiple rounds opened fire at a Houston megachurch led by Joel Osteen, a celebrity televangelist and pastor.
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
Matt Taylor, on the other hand, patrols the whirlpool of televangelists, charismatics and Pentecostals in an effort to learn why so many of them carried their devotion to Trump to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
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Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 20 Feb. 2024
Matt Taylor, on the other hand, patrols the whirlpool of televangelists, charismatics and Pentecostals in an effort to learn why so many of them carried their devotion to Trump to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
—Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 23 Jan. 2024
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televangelist
noun
tel·evan·ge·list
ˌtel-i-ˈvan-jə-ləst
: an evangelist who conducts regularly televised religious programs
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