chaplain
Regiment's spiritual guide
A chaplain is a member of the clergy attached to an institution rather than a parish—a hospital, prison, military unit, or university.
Chaplains provide spiritual guidance and conduct religious services for people in these settings: The hospital chaplain visited patients on the oncology ward.
The role has expanded to include secular counselors who offer emotional support regardless of religious affiliation.
Marriage rite and feast
- funeralService honoring the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
- blessingPrayer seeking divine favor
invocation · benediction · prayer · service · ceremony · rites · sacrament · last rites
Christian congregation leader
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- ministerReligious leader or serve
- reverendWorthy of veneration
- vicarClergy substitute for bishop
parson · rector · curate · deacon · preacher · cleric · ordained · ecclesiastic
Professional guidance for problems
- guidanceAdvice for decisions
- comfortEase or soothing relief
- solaceRelief from distress
- consolationComfort during distress
support · empathy · compassion · grief · bereavement · crisis · confession · confidant
Medical treatment facility
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- hospiceTerminal illness comfort program
- universityHigher education institution
- campusInstitutional grounds and buildings
correctional · penitentiary · asylum · nursing home · school · police · fire department · corporate
Connection to the sacred
- religionSystem of spiritual belief
- beliefTrust held as true
- devotionDeep, loyal commitment
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
sacred · piety · theology · doctrine · ecumenical · nondenominational · multifaith · denominational
wedding
Marriage rite and feast
- funeralService honoring the dead
- memorialThing preserving remembrance
- baptismRitual water purification ceremony
blessing · invocation · benediction · prayer · service · ceremony · rites · sacrament · last rites · eulogy
pastor
Christian congregation leader
vicar · parson · rector · curate · deacon · preacher · cleric · ordained · ecclesiastic · canon
counseling
Professional guidance for problems
consolation · support · empathy · compassion · grief · bereavement · crisis · confession · confidant · listening
hospital
Medical treatment facility
- prisonConfinement for offenders
- hospiceTerminal illness comfort program
- universityHigher education institution
campus · correctional · penitentiary · asylum · nursing home · school · police · fire department · corporate · residential
spirituality
Connection to the sacred
worship · sacred · piety · theology · doctrine · ecumenical · nondenominational · multifaith · denominational · evangelical
regiment
Colonel-led military unit
- battalionMid-sized military unit
- deploymentOrganized distribution of resources
- combatArmed hostile engagement
barracks · troops · veterans · memorial · dog tags · battlefield · medal · fallen · morale · brigade
- military termsarmy, navy, air force, marines, soldier
- castle staffchamberlain, chambermaid, butler, guard, handmaiden
- military rolessoldier, warrior, Praetorian Guard, sailor, Imperial Guard
- church rolesbishop, deacons, priest, pastor, lay readers
- clergypriest, bishop, pope, nun, monk
- military relationshipsally, enemy, comrade, commander, subordinate
chaplainlayperson
Non-specialist or unordained person
layman · laity · civilian · congregant · parishioner
- military chaplainArmed forces clergy member
- hospital chaplainFaith leader serving patients
- prison chaplainClergy for incarcerated people
- army chaplainsClergy serving military personnel
- school chaplainsReligious leaders in education
- combat chaplainArmed forces religious leader