About Eastern Kansas Veterans Administration Chapel · Topeka, Kansas
The Eastern Kansas Veterans Administration Chapel is an interfaith chapel located on the campus of the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans' Administration Medical Center in Topeka, Kansas, part of the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System. It serves veterans, patients, families, and staff of all faiths and denominations, providing a space for worship, prayer, and quiet reflection alongside a full range of chaplaincy services. Catholic Mass is celebrated at the chapel, with the local Catholic community listing it among Topeka's Sunday worship sites. Chaplains stationed here provide spiritual and emotional support, sacramental ministry, and bereavement care to veterans receiving care at the medical center, which has served those who served since 1946.
- Diocese
- Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas
Why belong here
Veterans receiving care at the Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center and their families, along with local Catholic faithful in Topeka, are welcome to participate in Catholic Mass and other worship services at the Eastern Kansas Veterans Administration Chapel. The chapel offers an opportunity to worship in a uniquely mission-centered setting that honors those who have served in the U.S. armed forces, while the VA chaplaincy team provides pastoral support, sacramental ministry, bereavement care, and counseling grounded in the spiritual traditions of the Catholic faith.
Mass times at Eastern Kansas Veterans Administration Chapel
Weekly Mass schedule
About the Eastern Kansas Veterans Administration Chapel
The Eastern Kansas Veterans Administration Chapel is the interfaith worship space serving the Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center in Topeka, Kansas. It is part of the VA Eastern Kansas Health Care System, one of the leading health care networks serving veterans in the VA Heartland Network (VISN 15). The chapel welcomes people of all faiths and traditions, including Catholic, Protestant, and non-religious veterans and their families.
Worship & Catholic Mass
Catholic Mass is celebrated at the chapel and is listed among Topeka's regular Sunday worship sites at 9:00 AM. The worship service schedule for the chapel itself is published through the VA's chaplain services page; visitors are encouraged to call ahead for current days and times.
- Sunday Catholic Mass — 9:00 AM
Chaplain Services & Spiritual Care
The VA Eastern Kansas chaplaincy team serves patients and families through outpatient treatment, hospital stays, and extended care. Chaplains are clinical pastoral care specialists, available for religious and non-religious people alike, and can also contact a patient's personal clergy or spiritual care provider in the community when appropriate.
- Spiritual and emotional support
- Comfort and counseling
- Bereavement (grief and loss) care
- Clinical pastoral care
- Contact with community clergy when requested
Sacramental & Pastoral Ministry
Through the chaplaincy office, Catholic and other patients may request the sacraments and rites of passage celebrated by the VA chapel team. These services are provided in coordination with the patient's faith tradition and, where needed, with community clergy.
- Baptisms
- Communion
- Weddings
- Funerals
The Colmery-O'Neil VA Medical Center
The chapel sits on the campus of the Colmery-O'Neil Veterans' Administration Medical Center, one of two principal medical centers in the VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System. The Topeka campus has been continuously serving veterans since 1946 and offers primary and specialty care including cardiology, mental health, infectious disease treatment, sleep medicine, suicide prevention, and women's health services.
- Address: 2200 SW Gage Boulevard, Topeka, KS 66622
- Main phone: 785-350-3111 (toll-free 800-574-8387)
- Facility hours: Open 24/7
- Named for Harry W. Colmery (1889–1979), WWI pilot, American Legion national commander, and principal architect of the G.I. Bill
VA Eastern Kansas Healthcare System
The Colmery-O'Neil Medical Center in Topeka is one of two main VA medical centers in the Eastern Kansas system, alongside the Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center in Leavenworth. The system also operates eight community-based outpatient clinics across eastern Kansas and northwestern Missouri and trains America's future health care providers while conducting medical research.
- Operating budget: approximately $330 million
- Nearly 2,000 full-time employees
- Serves about 41,500 veterans each year
- Service area: ~20,000 square miles across 39 counties
- Sister facility: Dwight D. Eisenhower VA Medical Center, Leavenworth
Visiting the Chapel
Members of the religious community are encouraged to visit patients who belong to their church or religious group, although general bed-to-bed or ward-to-ward visitation is not permitted. Visitors attending chapel services should observe standard VA visitor policies and check in at the medical center's main entrance.
- Call the medical center at 785-350-3111 for specific chapel hours and current Mass schedule
- Visiting church members may visit their own congregants by arrangement