catechist's Usage Examples:

Augustine's treatise was written at the request of a catechist, named Deogratias, who had asked him for advice.

At the latter is a Church of England mission station under a native Indian catechist attached to the diocese of Rangoon.

Krose's Katholische Missionsstatistik (1908), the following totals of Roman Catholic Missions amongst non-Christians have been compiled: European priests, 7933; native priests, 5837; lay brothers, 5270; sisters, 21,320; catechists, 24,524; native membership, 7,441,215; catechumens, 1,517,909.

Gregory of Nyssa's Great Catechesis is an instruction to catechists how they should proceed - though of course stating the writer's theology and apologetic, with his belief in universal salvation.

The book did have extraneous content such as when David meets a catechist.

Canon 18 of the Code of 1870 recognizes the offices of catechist, reader and sub-deacon (Wirzmann, The English Church and People in South Africa, p.

As catechist at his college he read lectures on the Decalogue, which, both on their delivery and on their publication (in 1630), created much interest.

's reign to £2000, and continued to the present day; its original object was to assist the reclamation of the Highlands from Roman Catholicism by means of catechists and teachers.

Synonyms:

instructor, teacher,

Antonyms:

None