parish

Meaning

1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. 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.
4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
5. In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
6. In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.

parochial

church

conton

ecclesiastical unit

Frequency

Hyphenated as

par‧ish

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈpæɹɪʃ/

From Middle English parisshe, from Old French paroisse (compare the obsolete variant paroch, from Anglo-Norman paroche, parosse), from Late Latin parochia, from Ancient Greek παροικία (paroikía, “a dwelling abroad”).

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