A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church.

The meaning of PARISH is the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor. How to use parish in a sentence.

PARISH definition: an ecclesiastical district having its own church and member of the clergy. See examples of parish used in a sentence.

Each parish (or township) formed a unit within which a characteristic, almost predictable pattern of land use was enacted.

1. an ecclesiastical district having its own church and cleric. 2. a local church with its field of activity. 3. (in Louisiana) a county. 4. the people of a parish. 5. house (def. 13).

PARISH meaning: 1 : an area that has its own local church and priest or minister; 2 : the group of people who go to the church in a particular area

A parish is an administrative division used by several countries. To distinguish it from an ecclesiastical parish, the term civil parish is used in some jurisdictions, as noted below.

She lived her whole life in this parish. A parish is also a political division within the state of Louisiana.

parish, in some Christian church polities, a geographic unit served by a pastor or priest. It is a subdivision of a diocese. In the New Testament, the Greek word paroikia means sojourning, or …

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