Broadly speaking, the parish is the standard unit in episcopal polity of church administration, although parts of a parish may be subdivided as a chapelry, with a chapel of ease or filial church serving as the local place of worship in cases of difficulty to access the main 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 has its own central church called the parish church, where religious services take place. The parish church is the center of most Catholics' spiritual life since it is there that they receive the sacraments.
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Administrative church areas (Definition of parish from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Definition of parish noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
a district or area with a particular church and priest or minister. Our house is in the parish of St Mary ('s); (also adjective) parish affairs. parroquia Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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