parish
suomi-englanti sanakirjaparish englannista suomeksi
seurakunta
Substantiivi
parish englanniksi
An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
(RQ:Maxwell Mirror and the Lamp)
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(nearsyn)
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
(syn)
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.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
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In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
1917, ''Annual Report'' of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:
- (..) makes possible, through the aid of the rural ministers, the development of the various phases of the District program, such as (a) Parishing of the District; (b) Interdenominational adjustment in the interest of rural religious advance (..)
{{quote-text|en|year=1972|title=Winter's Tales from Ireland|volume=2|page=55
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{{quote-text|en|year=1992|title=Parish and town councils in England: a survey|pages=17 and 21
{{quote-book|en|year=2011|title=Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report|page=5|isbn=0215557050
To visit residents of a parish.
{{quote-book|en|year=1896|author=Mrs. Humphry Ward|title=Sir George Tressady|publisher=volume 1|isbn=3842496737
{{quote-text|en|year=1903|author=Maxwell Gray|title=Richard Rosny|page=210
{{quote-text|en|year=1921|author=Margaret Pedler|title=The Splendid Folly|page=46
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