parish
noun
/ˈpæɹɪʃ/
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/ˈpɛɹɪʃ/
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- (Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheranism, Roman Catholicism) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
- (US) 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.
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församling
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- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
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församling,
parish
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