chaplain:

(plural: ‘chaplains‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘ch’ rhyme with the letters ‘ch’ in “church”, and the letters ‘lai’ rhyme with the letters ‘li’ in “lid”)

‘chapel’ = a small church, a small place of worship at a club, school, hospital, prison, etc.

a chaplain with a patient

 

a priest or other religious person attached to a chapel;
a priest or other clergy (a religious person) responsible for the religious needs of a club,  school, hospital, prison and a division of the armed forces, an important person, a ship, etc.,

an army chaplain

e.g.

In some schools you see a chaplain attending to certain religious activities and also teach part-time.

As part of his service to the community, the Christian priest acts as a local prison chaplain and tries to change some hard core prisoners.

A ship’s chaplain has to be as good as a tough sailors as he too stays at sea for months on end, weathering the terrible storms and accidents but keeping the morale of the sailors by conducting morning prayers and giving soothing sermons.

For an article on recruiting ‘prison chaplains’, please click here, and for another item of news about the tragic death of a chaplain, please click here.
Note: The word ‘Chaplin’, without an ‘a’ after the letter ‘l’ and always with a capital ‘c’, and with the same pronunciation of “chaplain”, with an ‘a’ after ‘l’, is found in the names of people and places, e.g. Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin, a very popular movie comedian, popularly known as ‘Charlie Chaplin’ or simply ‘Chaplin’; Oona Chaplin, actress and granddaughter of Charlie Chaplin; Elaine Chaplin;  and Chaplin, a place in the state of Connecticut, USA.

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