intercessor

IPA: ɪntɝsˈɛsɝ

A person who intercedes; a mediator; one who reconciles enemies, or pleads for another.
A middleman, intermediary
A bishop who acts during a vacancy in a see.

Examples of "intercessor" in Sentences

An "intercessor" is a person who prays on behalf of another.
The pope is not infallible, Mary is not an intercessor, Purgatory doesn't exist, and the sacraments are bogus.
The icon is an 'intercessor', an active mediator, because it is a presence that draws you into a shared prayer.
This pattern is repeated in time: in the cult of Christ as the "son'' he is the "intercessor" and savior juxtaposed to the avenging, punishing father.''
Instead of having a Sunday lecture, the goal of the ritual was to take the minds of the believers out of their daily routine and move their minds and spirits closer to the divine, with the priest acting as intercessor.
Minister of the Treasury and Chief of the Customs, and acted as intercessor and mediator between the missionaries on one side and the beach-combing crowd, the trading crowd, and the Hawaiian chiefs on the variously shifting other side.
Where the Sumerian tale presents the deluge as the work of an intemperate overlord whose attitude to humanity is far from benevolent, whose might may not be right, and offers an ethical opposition to him in figure of a merciful intercessor, the Biblical tale ultimately sanctions the genocidal destruction of most of humanity by ascribing it to a God whose wisdom, justice and mercy are presented as unquestionable.