Michael Fry, 57, hid the real number of funerals he conducted from the Anglican Diocese of Liverpool in order to fund his drinking habit between 2006 and 2013.
The clergyman was allowed to retain a portion of fees from funeral directors to offset against his annual £22,500 stipend.
He told the diocese he conducted around 20 funerals a year rather than 100 in order to keep the full portion of funeral fees for himself.
Fry pleaded guilty to eight counts of theft totalling £107,673 at Liverpool Crown Court.
He was sentenced to 20 months in prison, suspended for two years.
Fry was a Chaplin at Liverpool Women's Hospital until 2014
Martine Snowdon, defending, said her client was "deeply remorseful".
She said: "He fully accepts that he has failed his peers and the wider society in failing to account as scrupulously as he could have done and allowed himself to be enriched."
She said testimonials to the court showed he had provided "unquantifiable benefits" to those he had helped in the community over decades.
Fry turned to alcohol after he suffered depression when his parents died and his "emotional resources were stretched too far" she said.
Sentencing, Judge Elizabeth Nicholls told Fry: "Putting aside the money issues, you are undoubtedly a very caring, compassionate individual.
"I take the view that there comes a time in a man's life when you are entitled to say 'measure the good I have done against the harm I have done'.
"I have no doubt the good you have done in the community, and continue to do, outweighs the harm you have done."