Chaplain services

What this service offers

CAF Chaplains can meet your needs by providing spiritual and/or religious care, guidance and counselling, by providing an active, personal and supportive presence, and by assisting in understanding and clarifying one’s theological, moral, and ethical views. A chaplain can also provide information on such topics as ethics, anger management, suicide prevention, and family dynamics, as well as direct spiritual care and support in time of troubled, indecision and/or conflict. CAF chaplains have privileged access to CAF members of all ranks and can assist in various ways, including:

providing an active, personal, and supportive presence;
crisis intervention;
relationship support and counseling;
deployment-related issues and challenges;
addressing moral and ethical conflicts, challenges, and dilemmas;
alleviating feelings of loneliness, isolation, distress;
suicide prevention; and
referrals to other helping professionals such as social workers, psychologists or medical personnel, as needed.

Contacts

In an urgent situation, please contact the chaplains’ office at your closest CAF formation, base or wing.

For additional information, or to contact a chaplain in a non-urgent manner during regular business hours, contact us:

by email at ChaplainMain-AumoneriePrincipale@forces.gc.ca
by telephone at 1-866-502-2203

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The Royal Canadian Chaplain Service

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2025-12-12

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