Chaplain vs. Minister

Chaplainnoun

A member of a religious body (often, but not always, of the clergy) officially assigned to give pastoral care at an institution, group, private chapel, etc.

Chaplainnoun

A person without religious affiliation who carries out similar duties in a secular context.

Chaplainnoun

An ecclesiastic who has a chapel, or who performs religious service in a chapel.

Chaplainnoun

A clergyman who is officially attached to the army or navy, to some public institution, or to a family or court, for the purpose of performing divine service.

Chaplainnoun

Any person (clergyman or layman) chosen to conduct religious exercises for a society, etc.; as, a chaplain of a Masonic or a temperance lodge.

Chaplainnoun

a clergyman ministering to some institution

Chaplain

A chaplain is, traditionally, a cleric (such as a minister, priest, pastor, rabbi, purohit, or imam), or a lay representative of a religious tradition, attached to a secular institution (such as a hospital, prison, military unit, intelligence agency, embassy, school, labor union, business, police department, fire department, university, sports club), or a 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, as in the case of chaplains serving with military forces and an increasing number of chaplaincies at U.S. universities.

Ministernoun

A person who is trained to preach, to perform religious ceremonies and to afford pastoral care at a Protestant church.

Ministernoun

A politician who heads a ministry (national or regional government department for public service).

Ministernoun

At a diplomacy, the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador.

Ministernoun

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

Ministerverb

(transitive) To attend to (the needs of); to tend; to take care (of); to give aid; to give service.

Ministerverb

to function as a clergyman or as the officiant in church worship

Ministerverb

To afford, to give, to supply.

Ministernoun

A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.

Ministernoun

An officer of justice.

Ministernoun

One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.

Ministernoun

A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business.

Ministernoun

One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments.

Ministerverb

To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.

Ministerverb

To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.

Ministerverb

To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies; as, to minister to the sick.

Ministernoun

a person authorized to conduct religious worship

Ministernoun

a person appointed to a high office in the government;

Ministernoun

a diplomat representing one government to another; ranks below ambassador

Ministernoun

the job of a head of a government department

Ministerverb

attend to the wants and needs of others;

Ministerverb

work as a minister;