Paulist

American  

[paw-list] / ˈpɔ lɪst /

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. a member of the “Missionary Society of St. Paul the Apostle,” a community of priests founded in New York in 1858.

---

Etymology

Origin of Paulist

First recorded in 1880–85; Paul + -ist

Example Sentences

But the awards were founded in 1974 by the most peculiar sort of hyphenate: a 6-foot-7 priest-producer named Father Ellwood “Bud” Kieser of the church’s Paulist Fathers society.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 15, 2023

But Father Dick Sparks, a Paulist priest in Vero Beach, Florida, said that a case can be made for it.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2019

His seminary, Paulist Fathers, had seen more people than usual come in to fill up bottles from the five-gallon jugs of water they keep available for the public.

From Washington Post • Jul. 14, 2018

He joined the Paulist Press in 1975 as its Scripture editor.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2010

The Paulist Fathers with their missions to non-Catholics, their press and "Catholic Missionary Union," devoted to the conversion of America, have undoubtedly done splendid work.

From Catholic Problems in Western Canada by Daly, George Thomas