promulgator

Their fathers had been chief promulgators of the war in Vietnam.

This year has been marked by a more momentous kind of video “reaction” — an uprising, sparked by footage of police violence, that indicts even well-meaning white progressives as promulgators of injustice.

Hoover was America's chief promulgator of Americanism, the doctrine of white Anglo-Saxon Protestant nationalism.

In the past, they have also often been the chief promulgators of the supposed global “soft power” of the U.S.-based Internet giants, pretending those were a force for good.

These misdeeds were different from the ones Hersey was focussed on in “The Legend on the License,” but they take away some of the burnish from his image as the promulgator of sacred rules.