Look up: parish

1. parish
   [n] - the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor 2. [n] - a local church community
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2. parish
   In Britain, a subdivision of a county often coinciding with an original territorial subdivision in Christian church administration, served by a parish church. In the USA, the parish is an...
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3. Parish
   Every county is divided into area called 'parishes', each served by a parish church and a priest. Some large parishes may have more than one church, with the smaller ones called chapels-of-ease. The pattern of parishes is often complicated. Many of the larger old parishes have been divided to form s...
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4. Parish
   a district supporting its own established church and minister. Parish records are an invaluable archive source. The National Statistical Account is based on parish records, and the statutory lists are still compiled on the basis of parish boundaries. see heritors
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5. Parish
   The group of people of a certain area who are organized into a local, self-supporting church. Sometimes the word is used to refer to the geographic region around a church.
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6. Parish
   Par'ish noun [ Middle English parishe , paresche , parosche , Old French paroisse , parosse , paroiche , French paroisse , Latin parochia , corrupted from paroecia , Greek ..., from ... ...
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7. Parish
   Par'ish adjective Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor. Dryden. Parish clerk . (a) The clerk or...
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8. parish
   1. That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc. ... Populous and extensive parishes are now divided...
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9. parish
   noun a local church community
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10. parish
    noun the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
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11. Parish
    • (n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States. • (n.) An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, th...
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12. parish
    (from the article `Louisiana`) Local self-government in Louisiana followed the Virginia system of county government. The parish (county), the municipality, and the special district ...
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13. parish
    (from the article `United Kingdom`) ...government, each with its own responsibilities, whereas other areas have only a single tier or two tiers. Throughout England, parish and town ... Parish and town councils form the lowest tier of local government in England. Parishes are civil subdivisions, usually centred on a village or small ... ...
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14. parish
    in some Christian church polities, a geographic unit served by a pastor or priest. It is a subdivision of a diocese.[6 related articles]
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15. parish
    
    • a local church community
    • the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
    
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16. Parish
    It refers to the geographical area which is possesed or served by the church as an administrative division. Previously it was measured by the proximity of travel by the people living in the area. In louisiana, the parish is refered equivalent to the government of country as people form a group heade...
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17. parish
    n. 1) a geographic area served by a church (particularly Catholic) originally measured by whether people living in the area could walk to the church. 2) in Louisiana, the governmental equivalent of a county.
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18. Parish
    The smallest unit of English local government. The parish is normally governed by a vestry, which appoints officers such as churchwardens, scavengers and overseers of the poor.
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19. parish
    The smallest unit of church, or of local government administration in rural areas.
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20. Parish
    A `parish` is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization. By extension the term...
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21. Parish
    (village) `Parish` is a village in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 512 as of the census of 2000. Geography: Parish is located at (43.40558, -76.12608). According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of 10.5 square miles (4.0&...
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22. Parish
    (town) `Parish` is a town in Oswego County, New York, United States. The population was 2,694 at the 2000 census. The `Town of Parish` was created from the Town of Mexico in 1828. There is a village called Parish in the town. Geography: According to the United States Census Bureau, the town h...
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23. Parish
    (administrative division) A `parish` is an administrative division used by several countries. In the British Isles it is known as a civil parish to distinguish it from the ecclesiastical parish. ! Country or territory ! Local name External links:
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24. Parish
    (disambiguation) A `parish` is a territorial unit used for `ecclesiastical` administration and, derived from that, A `parish` may also refer to a `secular` local government administrative entity: See also:
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25. Parish
    (Catholic Church) In the Roman Catholic Church, a `parish` is the lowest ecclesiastical geographical subdivision: from ecclesiastical province to diocese to deanery to parish. Requirements: A parish needs two things under common law to become a parish. First, a body of Catholics within a fixe...
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