There he was ordained, and obtained a reputation both as a professor and a preacher.

The canons of the foundation that administered the Grossmünster recognised Zwingli's reputation as a fine preacher and writer.

Andrewes was considered, next to Ussher, to be the most learned churchman of his day, and enjoyed a great reputation as an eloquent and impassioned preacher, but the stiffness and artificiality of his style render his sermons unsuited to modern taste.

Newton, with his own associations with Dissenters ( his mother was one ) meant he was in a position to conciliate with, rather than confront, his parishioners, and he quickly achieved a reputation as a popular preacher.

Bossuet quickly gained a reputation as a great preacher, and by 1660, he was preaching regularly before the court in the Chapel Royal.

He was an eloquent preacher, but his reputation rests chiefly on his expository works, which are said to have had a larger circulation both in Europe and America than any others of their class.

Having gained a reputation as a leading Protestant preacher, Bullinger quickly received offers to take up the position of pastor from Zurich, Basel, Bern, and Appenzell.

In the preceding year he had gained a reputation by his poem To the Happie Memory of the most Renowned Prince Oliver, Lord Protector ( London, 1659 ), and he was afterwards well known as a wit, preacher and man of letters.

His success as a preacher was at first small ; but he was soon transferred to Bridgnorth, in Shropshire, where, as assistant to a Mr Madstard, he established a reputation for vigorously discharging the duties of his office.

Massillon soon gained a wide reputation as a preacher and was selected to be the Advent preacher at the court of Versailles in 1699.

He was Hulsean lecturer at Cambridge in 1841-1842, and steadily built up a reputation as scholar and preacher, which might have been greater if not for his excursions into minor poetry and magazine editing.

Feckenham established a reputation as a preacher and a disputant of keen intellect but unvarying charity.

As a lecturer and as a preacher he drew large crowds, but his literary reputation proved exceptionally temporary.

He gained a reputation as a good preacher and faithful pastor.

He earned a reputation as an eloquent preacher and effective apologist, and was a recognized theologian and scripture scholar.

These works, along with the reputation he had acquired as a lecturer and preacher, secured for him a call to the University of Helmstedt as professor ordinarius in 1723.

Teaching in Berlin, he made a reputation as writer, preacher and poet, and went to England.

He had a great reputation as a preacher in and about Liverpool ; but, advised by letters of John Cotton and Thomas Hooker, he was persuaded to join the company of pilgrims in May 1635 and embarked at Bristol for New England.

He gained a reputation as a gifted preacher and was often seen at the annual Katoomba Christian Conventions.

His tombstone slab reads as follows: “ Here lies the mortal part of Gilbert Tennent / In the Practice of Physick, he was Successful and Beloved / Young, Gay, and In the Full Bloom of Life, Death Found him Hopefully in The Lord / But Oh Reader, had you Heard his Last Testimony, you would have been convinced / Of the Extreme Madness of Delaying Repentance .” As the son of the somewhat famous " fire and brimstone " preacher William Tennent, he had earned a reputation typical of preachers ' progeny, as a " wild one " given to drink and misbehavior ; yet, on his deathbed he was very fearful and regretful, and loudly proclaimed his renouncement of his “ wicked ways.

Horne had a reputation as a preacher, and his sermons were frequently reprinted.

He quickly gained a high reputation as a preacher and as an eloquent speaker on political subjects.

Having early gained a great reputation for pulpit eloquence, he was appointed imperial court preacher at Vienna in 1669.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

For the old preacher who had been there twenty-five years was dead, and the city mourned him.

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

Since John Wesley ordained and sent forth every Methodist preacher in his day, who preached and baptized and ordained, and since every Methodist preacher who has ever been ordained as a Methodist was ordained in this direct " succession " from Wesley, then the Methodist Church teaches that it has all the direct merits coming from apostolic succession, if any such there be.

Bernard's mother, Maud, was the daughter of the well-known preacher Frederic William Farrar, and was eighteen years younger than her husband.

In 1648, preacher John Elliott was quoted in Thomas Shepherd's book " Clear Sunshine of the Gospel " with an account of the difficulties the Pilgrims were having in using the Indians to harvest cranberries as they preferred to hunt and fish.

The name Druze is derived from the name of Anushtakīn ad-Darazī ( from Persian, darzi, " seamster ") who was an early preacher.

Music played an important role in her early life, and her grandfather was a Pentecostal " holy-roller " preacher.

Humbert of Romans, the Master General of the Order from 1254 to 1263, was a great administrator, as well as preacher and writer.

Not only did he fight for the Protestant cause as a preacher and theologian, but he was almost the only member of Luther's party who was able to confront the Roman Catholics with the weapon of literary satire.

Charles Grandison Finney was an important preacher of this period.

Saint Francis of Assisi ( born Giovanni Francesco di Bernardone ; 1181 died: October 3, 1226 ) was an Italian Catholic friar and preacher.

One of his students was William Seymour, an African-American preacher.

He travelled throughout Britain as a dissenting preacher, for which he was often persecuted by the authorities who disapproved of his beliefs.

In his view, as God was everywhere and anyone could preach, the established church was unnecessary and a university qualification irrelevant for a preacher.

Founded as a broad Islamist coalition in 1989 it was led by Abbassi Madani, and a charismatic radical young preacher, Ali Belhadj.

Parker suggests that Calvin was a consistent preacher and his style changed very little over the years.

He had resided there only a month when he was called to Eisleben, where he remained till 1526 as teacher in the school of St Andrew, and preacher in the Nicolai church.