parish

(noun)

An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church; found in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Church and certain civil government entities.

Examples of parish in the following topics:

  • The Anglican Class

    • In practice, establishment meant that local taxes were funneled through the local parish to handle the needs of local government, such as roads and poor relief, in addition to the salary of the minister.

  • White Terror

    • Its first chapter, established in Grant Parish, Louisiana, was made up of many of the same local Confederate veterans who had participated in the earlier Colfax Massacre, in April 1873.
    • The Coushatta Massacre occurred in another Red River parish: The local White League forced six Republican officeholders to resign and promise to leave the state.
    • The League assassinated the men before they left the parish, together with between five and twenty freedmen (sources differ) who were witnesses.

  • Devolution

    • Local governmental entities like municipalities, counties, parishes, boroughs and school districts are devolved.

  • The Spread of Public Education

    • From 1750–1870, parochial schools appeared as ad hoc efforts by parishes, and most Catholic children attended public schools.
    • These parochial schools, like the parishes around them, tended to be ethnically homogeneous.

  • Effects of Group Size on Stability and Intimacy

    • The contrast between the two types is illustrated by comparing hamlet with town, military company with battalion, parish church with diocese, or a country school with a huge urban one.

  • Gothic Architecture: La Saint-Chapelle

    • La Sainte-Chapelle stands squarely upon a lower chapel, which served as parish church for all the inhabitants of the palace, which was the seat of government.

  • Anglo-Saxon and Irish Art

    • Blocked Anglo-Saxon round-arched window at Fobbing Parish Church.

  • The Ancien Regime

    • At the other extreme, the "lower clergy" (about equally divided between parish priests and monks and nuns) constituted about 90 percent of the First Estate, which in 1789 numbered around 130,000 (about 0.5% of the population).
    • Similarly, the tithes (a form of obligatory tax, at the time often paid in kind), which the peasants were obliged to pay to their local churches, was a cause of grievance as it was known that the majority of parish priests were poor and the contribution was being paid to an aristocratic, and usually absentee, abbot.

  • Religion in Early New England

    • The Bruton Parish Church in Williamsburg.

  • The Black Death

    • Over half the parish priests, who gave the final sacraments to the dying, died themselves.
    • The shortage of priests opened new opportunities for lay women to assume more extensive and important service roles in local parishes.