parish

seurakunta In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
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The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
puhekieltä 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.
An administrative subdivision in Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
puhekieltä To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more Noun 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 (..)

Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.

Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).

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The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly parished.

Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas, (..)

(..) a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."

"You will take pleasure in parishing. Mother used to parish."

"How do you know I like parishing?"

"Your uncle said so."

"Oh! did he?"

"And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."

"Are you going ‘parishing’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.