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3 unusual facts about chaplain


Chaplain-General of Prisons

He is also an ex officio member of the House of Clergy of the General Synod.

The Chaplain-General of Prisons is the head of the Church of England's chaplains to prisons.

Lawrence James McNamara

He was a parish priest and high school teacher, Diocesan Refugee Resettlement Director, Chairman of the United Campaign Agency Executives Association, Chaplain of Jackson County Jail, President of the Kansas City Citizens' Alliance for the War on Poverty.


11th Pennsylvania Infantry

William Henry Locke, the regimental chaplain, later wrote a history of the 11th Pennsylvania.

4th Canadian Infantry Brigade

Rev. John Weir Foote, VC, CD (5 May 1904 – 2 May 1988 ), Regimental Chaplain to The Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment) for work with the wounded at the Dieppe Raid.

Agostino Agostini

He was a mansionary chaplain at the San Giorgio Cathedral in Ferrera, and his illegitimate son (sometimes listed as his nephew) was composer Lodovico Agostini, noted for publications of enigmatic canons.

Alfred Hurley

From 1945 to 1946 he was Chaplain General to the South East Asia Allied Land Forces.

Andrew Stone

Andrew Leete Stone (1815–1892), author, Civil War chaplain and pastor

Attorney General v Davy

A clause stated that three of the twelve would choose a chaplain for the Sandford church as well, another village within the Kirton parish, with the consent of the majority of Sandford residents.

Benjamin Robinson

He began life as chaplain and tutor in the family of Sir John Gell at Hopton, Derbyshire.

Bruce Gilberd

As vicar of Avondale, Auckland from 1968 to 1971, he gained further experience through secondment to Egglescliffe on Teesside in the United Kingdom as an industrial chaplain.

Charles Blount, 8th Baron Mountjoy

Mountjoy, by whom she had already had several children, married her on 26 December 1605 at Wanstead House in London, in a ceremony conducted by his chaplain, William Laud, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.

Charles Thomas Wooldridge

In Reading Gaol Wooldridge told the prison chaplain that he was filled with grief and remorse at having killed his beloved wife, and resisted attempts at a reprieve (including a recommendation for clemency from the jury that convicted him) by petitioning the Home Secretary Sir Matthew White Ridley for the sentence to be allowed to be carried out.

Claus Clausen

Claus Lauritz Clausen (1820–1892), pioneer Lutheran minister, military chaplain and politician

David Stancliffe

Three years later he returned to the West Country as Chaplain to Clifton College, Bristol.

Erik Routley

He was chaplain of Mansfield from 1948 to 1959 and then held appointments as minister in Edinburgh and Newcastle before becoming Professor of Church Music at Westminster Choir College, Princeton, New Jersey in 1975.

Fleury Abbey

The monk of Fleury named Helgaud (died ca 1068), was chaplain to King Robert II and wrote a brief Epitoma vitae Roberti regis.

Francis Brokesby

After his wife's death Brokesby appears to have resided constantly at Shottesbrooke, and early in 1706 succeeded Mr Gilbert of St John's College, Oxford, as chaplain to the little society of nonjurors established there.

Glyn Webster

From 1981 to 1992, he was a chaplain at the York District Hospital and from 1992 to 1999, he was the Senior Chaplain for the York Health Services NHS Trust.

Harby, Leicestershire

Rector - 1596-1598 Robert Snoden later became chaplain to James I in 1614, and Bishop of Carlisle in 1616.

Henry Barclay Swete

In 1881 he became examining chaplain to the Bishop of St. Albans, and the following year was appointed professor of pastoral theology at King's College London.

Hermann Joseph

Late in his life, he had under his charge the spiritual welfare of the Cistercian nuns at Hoven, near Zulpich, whom he served as chaplain.

Jakob Weis

He then spent time as a chaplain in Mittelbexbach (10 October 1901 - 30 August 1905), then time in Gersheim (31 August 1905 - 16 October 1905), then in Landau in der Pfalz (17 October 1905 - 30 June 1909).

Johannes Haw

He was chaplain in the parish of Our Lady in Koblenz, vicar in Holz in Heusweiler (Saar) and later parish priest in Wintersdorf in Ralingen on the Sauer.

John Breynton

Because of his fluency in German, he was reported to have been a chaplain to Queen Charlotte.

John D. McCarty

Soldiers across the Columbia River at Fort Vancouver knew Reverend McCarty from his service as a brigade chaplain in the Mexican War.

John Maunsell

Maunsell acquired additional benefices including: "the Provost of Beverly" in 1247, "the living of Howden," "Chancellorship of St. Paul's, London," "the living of Bawburgh," "Prebend of South Malling," "Living of Haughley," "Prebend of Tottenhall," "Prebend of Chinchester," "Dean of Wimborn," "Rector of Wigan," "Papal Chaplain," as well as "Chaplain of the King."

John Ruston

In 1976 Ruston took up an appointment as Archdeacon of Bloemfontein and as an examining chaplain to the Bishop of Bloemfontein and warden and chaplain of St Michael’s School, Bloemfontein.

Juan de Anchieta

He held various church benefices, from 1518 as Abbot of Arbós, town located at the province of Tarragona, as a chaplain at Granada Cathedral, spending his final years in a Franciscan convent he had founded in Azpeitia.

Kevan Barlow

He would meet with the prison chaplain, Reverend Earl Smith, who once played chess in the prison with Charles Manson.

Luis Concha Córdoba

He was named a monastery chaplain, the prefect of studies and a professor at the seminary of Bogotá, and a professor of religion at Gimnasio Moderno and again at Our Lady of the Rosary University in 1921.

Mary Franson

On April 20, 2012 Franson objected to the opening prayer on the House floor, where the House Chaplain Rev. Francis Grady mentioned Earth Day and tied it to the Gulf oil spill.

Matheus de Sancto Johanne

:-) --> – he is recorded as being a clerk for the Louis I, Duke of Anjou, and between 1382 and 1387 he was at the papal court in Avignon as a chaplain.

Michael Plaskow

He was an Honorary Grand Chaplain of the Freemasons, and received the 1992 Norman B. Spencer award for research into Freemasonry.

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The codex was brought from Athos to England by César de Missy (1703-1775), French chaplain of George III, King of England, who spent his life in collecting materials for an edition of the New Testament.

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Thomas Payne, chaplain in the British embassy in Constantinople, presented the manuscript to Charles Herzog, Duke of Marlborough, in 1738.

Myles Coverdale

He went to Denmark (where his brother-in-law was chaplain to the king), then to Wesel, and finally back to Bergzabern.

Nathaniel Vincent

He was ejected in 1662, after which he lived three years as chaplain to Sir Henry and Lady Blount at Tyttenhanger House, Hertfordshire.

Nidaros Cathedral Boys' Choir

But when planning the 900th anniversary of the death of St. Olav, chaplain Arne Fjellbu, later to become bishop, took the initiative to establish a new boys' choir in Trondheim.

Norman Matthews

In 1940, he became vicar of St Saviour's, Roath, Cardiff (combining this with the post of chaplain to HM Prison Cardiff from 1940 to 1945) and in 1953 became rector of St. Fagans.

Peter Hullermann

After serving as chaplain to an old people's home for a year, Hullermann was then reassigned around 1987 to Garching an der Alz, where he worked as a curate and parish administrator for more than 20 years.

Philip Repyngdon

In 1394, Repyngdon was made abbot of the abbey of Saint Mary de Pratis at Leicester, and after the accession of Henry IV to the English throne in 1399 he became chaplain and confessor to this king, being described as clericus specialissimus domini regis Henrici.

Prize money

One eighth was divided among the wardroom warrant officers (surgeon, purser, and chaplain), standing warrant officers (carpenter, boatswain, and gunner), lieutenant of marines, and the master's mates.

Robert Hay Drummond

As royal chaplain he gained the confidence and esteem of George II, whom he attended during the German campaign of 1743, and on 7 July of that year preached the thanksgiving sermon for the victory of Dettingen before the king at Hanau.

Samuel B. Booth

He was rector of St. Luke's Church, Kensington, Philadelphia (1914-1918), chaplain to an American Red Cross evacuation hospital in France, and superintendent of missions, Bucks County, Pennsylvania before consecration as bishop coadjutor of Vermont on February 17, 1925.

St. Anthony, Minnesota

H. Timothy ("Tim") Vakoc – former associate pastor of St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, in St. Anthony, and the first U.S. military chaplain to die from wounds received in the Iraq War.

Stanley Girard Schlarman

After serving as chaplain to a local Catholic hospital, he became a pastor in St. Rose Township and later in Cairo.

The Communards

Coles followed his Christian leanings and, after periods as a journalist for the Times Literary Supplement and Catholic Herald, he was ordained in the Church of England, spending time as the curate of St Botolph's (The Stump) in Boston, Lincolnshire and as assistant priest at St Paul's Knightsbridge and Chaplain to the Royal College of Music.

Thomas Bickley

Returning to England after the accession of Elizabeth I, he enjoyed rapid promotion, being made, within ten years, chaplain to Archbishop Matthew Parker, rector of Biddenden in Kent, of Sutton Waldron in Dorset, archdeacon of Stafford, chancellor in Lichfield Cathedral, and Warden of Merton College, Oxford.

William Bedell

In 1607 he was appointed chaplain to Sir Henry Wotton, then English ambassador at Venice, where he remained for four years, acquiring a great reputation as a scholar, theologian, printer, and Missionary to the faithfull leaving under Roman Catholic tyranny of the Inquisition.

William Doyle

Willie Doyle (William Joseph Gabriel Doyle, 1873–1917), Irish Jesuit priest and British Army chaplain

William John O'Grady

He served as chaplain to Connell James Baldwin's soldiers in Brazil, and followed him to Toronto Gore Township in 1828.


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