The center already has a program that trains a dozen seminarians and chaplains a year, with a 10-month program designed for international students and a 10-week course for summer interns.

The investigation grew out of concerns among members of Congress that groups training Muslim chaplains had terrorist ties and were breeding extremism.

Now, most Muslim candidates study at the Hartford Seminary in Connecticut, which also trains chaplains for hospitals and prisons.

He is also a military officer - an ensign in a Navy program that trains military chaplains.

Simon Beveridge is an Anglican Royal Navy Chaplain notable for being one of the handful of Commando Trained chaplains.

In addition to being a professor of Islamic studies at the Hartford Seminary, she directs the program that trains Muslim chaplains for hospitals, universities or the military.

Earlier this year, his organization, which trains chaplains, established the Jewish Institute for Pastoral Care, a program geared to rabbinical and cantorial students whose seminaries have not focused much on pastoral work.

The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS).

Until 1959, Cardinal Lustiger was student chaplain at the Sorbonne, and for the next 10 years director of the Richelieu Center, which trained chaplains for French universities.

The USMC does not train chaplains, hospital corpsmen or medical doctors; thus officers and enlisted sailors from the Navy fulfill these roles.