His real name is Bruce Stinson, he was employed by Operation Knightstrike with Al Simmons. Chapel would later murder his teammate. Chapel was injected with several shemicals giving him superhuman abilities. What he didn't know is that he was injected with the HIV virus, at the will of his superiors. Chapel was contracted by Jason Wynn to kill Spawn. His face is covered by a skull which was painted at first but after his encounter with Spawn the tatoo became permanent as it were his bones marked by the hand of spawn.

He later joined the Youngbloods. Chapel uses lots of various weapons, from guns to swords, and he is a formidable fighter.

During the extreme sacrifice saga he killed himself after chasing spawn as to become Lord Chapel, working for the devil and willing to destroy youngblood and his old teammates. After being seperated from his Hellish counterpart Lord Chapel, he was returned to Earth as a woman, then turned back into a man. He has teamed up with Spawn to fight his other.

apparently killed during this saga he never resurfaced since, but who knows...