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Parish

/ˈpæɹɪʃ/

In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

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📖 Definitions of "Parish"

noun

1
In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3
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 live.
4
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.

verb

1
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
"1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934"
2
To visit residents of a parish.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Parish"

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Word	Definition
archdiocesenoun	(Christianity) A group of dioceses administered by an archbishop
priesthoodnoun	The role or office of a priest.
churchnoun	(countable, Christianity) A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.
chapelnoun	(especially Christianity) A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
congregationnoun	A gathering of faithful in a temple, church, synagogue, mosque or other place of worship. It can also refer to the people who are present at a devotional service in the building, particularly in contrast to the pastor, minister, imam, rabbi etc. and/or choir, who may be seated apart from the general congregation or lead the service (notably in responsory form).
diocesenoun	(Christianity) A group of parishes administered by a bishop.
parochialnoun	Pertaining to a parish.
municipalitynoun	A district with a government that typically encloses no other governed districts; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.
municipalnoun	(finance) A financial instrument issued by a municipality.
districtnoun	An administrative division of an area.
shirenoun	(British) (chiefly historical) An administrative area or district between about the 5th to the 11th century, subdivided into hundreds or wapentakes and jointly governed by an ealdorman and a sheriff; also, a present-day area corresponding to such a historical district; a county; especially (England), a county having a name ending in -shire.
faithfulnoun	(in the plural) The practicing members of a religion or followers of a cause.
barishnoun	A surname.
countynoun	An administrative or geographical region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and 47 of the 50 United States (excluding Alaska, Connecticut, and Louisiana).
choirnoun	A group of people who sing together; a company of people who are trained to sing together.
distritonoun	—
peresnoun	A surname from Portuguese [in turn originating as a patronymic]
faith community	—
chapelrynoun	The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large parish which has its own district chapel.
vicariatenoun	(Christianity) The office, authority, or district of a vicar.