CHAPLAIN

Chaplain

of the North Shore LIJ health system)]]Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister, such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, imam or lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel. Though originally the word "chaplain" referred to representatives of the Christian faith, it is now also applied to people of other religions or philosophical traditions–such as in the case of the humanist chaplains serving with military forces in the Netherlands, Belgium. In recent times, many lay people have received professional training in chaplaincy and are now ...

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chaplain

Noun

  1. A member of the clergy officially assigned to an institution, group, private chapel, etc.


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