
1) Any Pelican State county 2) Area with a capital hotel 3) Community 4) County in Louisiana 5) County, to Louisianans 6) Diocese division 7) Diocese part 8) East Baton Rouge 9) Feudal term 10) Feudal word 11) French word used in English 12) Kind of priest 13) Local church 14) Local church community
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1) Region
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- a local church community
- the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor
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A specific community of the Christian Faithful within a diocese, which has its own church building and is under the authority of a pastor who is responsible for providing the faithful with ministerial service. Most parishes are formed on a geographic basis, but they may be formed along national or ethnic lines.
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originally an ecclesiastical division, a district under one pastor enjoying full possession of all the rights of a parochial church, including the district
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• (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, the territory in which the members of a congregation...
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(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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(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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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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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 several new parishes. In more recent times some sma...
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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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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, under various parliamentary acts, into smaller e...
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the smallest unit of English local government, usually governed by the vestry, and appoints officers such as churchwardens, scavengers and overseers of the poor. (This fairly standard definition, however, is somewhat oriented to lowland southern England where parishes were compact and frequently consisted of a single village; it should be noted th...
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A particular community of believers that is stably constituted in a particular church, whose pastoral care is entrusted to a priest, under the authority of the diocesan bishop
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originally an ecclesiastical division, a district under one pastor enjoying full possession of all the rights of a parochial church, including the district
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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 recording officer of a parish .
(b) ...
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Par'ish noun [ Middle English
parishe ,
paresche ,
parosche , Old French
paroisse ,
parosse ,
paroiche , French
paroisse , Latin
parochia , corrupted from
paroecia , Greek ..., from ... dwelling beside or near;
para` beside ...
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1) An area served by a particular church; an ecclesiastical district. 2) In Louisiana, the governmental equivalent of a county.
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A parish is a group of Catholics who belong to the same church community.
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Another name for a congregation found predominantly in Roman Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican churches (Smith and Green 1995
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a specific community of the Christian faithful within a diocese which has its own church building and is under the authority of a priest who is responsible for providing the faithful with ministerial service. Most parishes are formed on a geographic basis, but they may be formed along national or ethnic lines.
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A specific community of believers, commonly but not always defined geographically, whose pastoral and spiritual care is guided by a priest or other leader appointed by a bishop.
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a stable community of the faithful within a particular diocese whose pastoral care and responsibility is given by the bishop to a priest as pastor
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(Latin: parochus) is a stable community of the faithful within a diocese headed by a bishop, whose pastoral care has been entrusted to a parish priest (Latin: pastor), under the authority of the bishop. It is the primary constituent unit of a diocese.Most parishes are territorial parishes, which comprise all Catholics living within a defined geogra...
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noun a local church community
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