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class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sources" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sources"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Sources</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sources-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1 vector-toc-list-item-expanded"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc 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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%8A%D8%A9" title="رعية – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="رعية" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-an mw-list-item"><a href="https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parroquia_eclesiastica" title="Parroquia eclesiastica – Aragonese" lang="an" hreflang="an" data-title="Parroquia eclesiastica" data-language-autonym="Aragonés" data-language-local-name="Aragonese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Aragonés</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-frp mw-list-item"><a href="https://frp.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroche" title="Paroche – Arpitan" lang="frp" hreflang="frp" data-title="Paroche" data-language-autonym="Arpetan" data-language-local-name="Arpitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Arpetan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prixod" title="Prixod – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Prixod" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Парафія – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Парафія" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be-x-old mw-list-item"><a href="https://be-tarask.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%84%D1%96%D1%8F" title="Парафія – Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" lang="be-tarask" hreflang="be-tarask" data-title="Парафія" data-language-autonym="Беларуская (тарашкевіца)" data-language-local-name="Belarusian (Taraškievica orthography)" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская (тарашкевіца)</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bcl mw-list-item"><a href="https://bcl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parokya" title="Parokya – Central Bikol" lang="bcl" hreflang="bcl" data-title="Parokya" data-language-autonym="Bikol Central" data-language-local-name="Central Bikol" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bikol Central</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%95%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F" title="Енория – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Енория" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bar mw-list-item"><a href="https://bar.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pforrei" title="Pforrei – Bavarian" lang="bar" hreflang="bar" data-title="Pforrei" data-language-autonym="Boarisch" data-language-local-name="Bavarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Boarisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parohija" title="Parohija – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Parohija" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrez_(relijion)" title="Parrez (relijion) – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Parrez (relijion)" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parr%C3%B2quia_eclesi%C3%A0stica" title="Parròquia eclesiàstica – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Parròquia eclesiàstica" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%85%D1%85%D1%83%D1%82" title="Приххут – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Приххут" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farnost" title="Farnost – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Farnost" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plwyf" title="Plwyf – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Plwyf" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pfarrei" title="Pfarrei – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Pfarrei" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirikukogudus" title="Kirikukogudus – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Kirikukogudus" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BD%CE%BF%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1" title="Ενορία – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ενορία" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parroquia_(religi%C3%B3n)" title="Parroquia (religión) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Parroquia (religión)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paro%C4%A5o" title="Paroĥo – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Paroĥo" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrokia_(erlijioa)" title="Parrokia (erlijioa) – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Parrokia (erlijioa)" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%B5%D8%A8%D9%87" title="قصبه – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="قصبه" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroisse" title="Paroisse – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Paroisse" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karspel" title="Karspel – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Karspel" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par%C3%B3iste" title="Paróiste – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Paróiste" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gv mw-list-item"><a href="https://gv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeerey" title="Skeerey – Manx" lang="gv" hreflang="gv" data-title="Skeerey" data-language-autonym="Gaelg" data-language-local-name="Manx" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaelg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gd mw-list-item"><a href="https://gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parraist" title="Parraist – Scottish Gaelic" lang="gd" hreflang="gd" data-title="Parraist" data-language-autonym="Gàidhlig" data-language-local-name="Scottish Gaelic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gàidhlig</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parroquia_eclesi%C3%A1stica" title="Parroquia eclesiástica – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Parroquia eclesiástica" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%82%AC%EB%AA%A9%EA%B5%AC" title="사목구 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="사목구" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C5%BDupa" title="Župa – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Župa" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroki" title="Paroki – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Paroki" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prestakall" title="Prestakall – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Prestakall" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrocchia" title="Parrocchia – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Parrocchia" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%9B%E1%83%A0%E1%83%94%E1%83%95%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="მრევლი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="მრევლი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parokia" title="Parokia – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Parokia" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pawas" title="Pawas – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Pawas" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroecia" title="Paroecia – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Paroecia" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draudze" title="Draudze – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Draudze" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Par" title="Par – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Par" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parapija" title="Parapija – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Parapija" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochie" title="Parochie – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="Parochie" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Limburgs</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pl%C3%A9b%C3%A1nia" title="Plébánia – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Plébánia" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%BE%D1%85%D0%B8%D1%98%D0%B0" title="Парохија – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Парохија" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%87%E0%B4%9F%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%95" title="ഇടവക – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഇടവക" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%B9%D9%8A%D9%87" title="رعيه – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="رعيه" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paroki" title="Paroki – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Paroki" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parochie_(kerkelijke_gemeente)" title="Parochie (kerkelijke gemeente) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Parochie (kerkelijke gemeente)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%8F%E6%95%99%E5%8C%BA" title="小教区 – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="小教区" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nrm mw-list-item"><a href="https://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/P%C3%A2raisse" title="Pâraisse – 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class="mw-redirectedfrom">(Redirected from <a href="/w/index.php?title=Parishes&redirect=no" class="mw-redirect" title="Parishes">Parishes</a>)</span></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">This article is about the Christian division. For the civil division, see <a href="/wiki/Parish_(administrative_division)" title="Parish (administrative division)">Parish (administrative division)</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Parish_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Parish (disambiguation)">Parish (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">"Parish priest" redirects here. For the book, see <a href="/wiki/Parish_Priest_(book)" title="Parish Priest (book)">Parish Priest (book)</a>.</div> <div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Ecclesiastical subdivision of a diocese</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg/220px-BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="145" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg/330px-BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1f/BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg/440px-BerndorfEnsembleMargaretenplatz.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2937" data-file-height="1932" /></a><figcaption>St Margarete Parish Church, <a href="/wiki/Berndorf,_Lower_Austria" title="Berndorf, Lower Austria">Berndorf, Lower Austria</a></figcaption></figure> <p>A <b>parish</b> is a territorial entity in many <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> denominations, constituting a division within a <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese</a>. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a <a href="/wiki/Priest#Christianity" title="Priest">priest</a>, often termed a <b>parish priest</b>, who might be assisted by one or more <a href="/wiki/Curates" class="mw-redirect" title="Curates">curates</a>, and who operates from a <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a>. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manor</a>. Its association with the parish church remains paramount.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By extension the term <i>parish</i> refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest <i><a href="/wiki/Ex_officio_member" title="Ex officio member">ex officio</a></i>, vested in him on his institution to that parish. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Etymology_and_use">Etymology and use</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Etymology and use"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word <i>parish</i> comes from the <a href="/wiki/Old_French" title="Old French">Old French</a> <span title="Old French (842-ca. 1400)-language text"><i lang="fro">paroisse</i></span>, in turn from <a href="/wiki/Latin_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Latin language">Latin</a>: <i lang="la">paroecia</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Greek" title="Romanization of Greek">Romanisation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Ancient Greek</a>: <span lang="grc">παροικία</span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ancient_Greek" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Ancient Greek">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ancient Greek-language romanization"><i lang="grc-Latn">paroikia</i></span>, "sojourning in a foreign land",<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> itself from <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">πάροικος</span></span> (<i>paroikos</i>), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner",<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is a compound of <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">παρά</span></span> (<i>pará</i>), "beside, by, near"<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <span title="Greek-language text"><span lang="el">οἶκος</span></span> (<i>oîkos</i>), "house".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As an ancient concept, the term "parish" occurs in the long-established Christian denominations: <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic</a>, <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church">Eastern Orthodox Church</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Lutheranism" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a> churches, and in some <a href="/wiki/Methodist" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist">Methodist</a>, <a href="/wiki/Congregationalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Congregationalist">Congregationalist</a> and <a href="/wiki/Presbyterianism" title="Presbyterianism">Presbyterian</a> administrations. </p><p>The eighth Archbishop of Canterbury <a href="/wiki/Theodore_of_Tarsus" title="Theodore of Tarsus">Theodore of Tarsus</a> (c. 602–690) appended the parish structure to the <a href="/wiki/Anglo-Saxons#Culture" title="Anglo-Saxons">Anglo-Saxon township</a> unit, where it existed, and where <a href="/wiki/Minster_(church)" title="Minster (church)">minsters</a> catered to the surrounding district.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Territorial_structure">Territorial structure</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Territorial structure"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG/220px-Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG/330px-Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG/440px-Parish_boundary_markers_in_Hereford.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>Parish boundary markers for St Peter's and St Owen's in <a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Broadly speaking, the parish is the standard unit in <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_polity" title="Episcopal polity">episcopal polity</a> of church administration, although parts of a parish may be subdivided as a <i><a href="/wiki/Chapelry" title="Chapelry">chapelry</a></i>, with a <a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_ease" title="Chapel of ease">chapel of ease</a> or <a href="/wiki/Filial_church" title="Filial church">filial church</a> serving as the local place of worship in cases of difficulty to access the main parish church. </p><p>In the wider picture of ecclesiastical polity, a <i>parish</i> comprises a division of a <a href="/wiki/Diocese" title="Diocese">diocese or see</a>. Parishes within a diocese may be grouped into a <a href="/wiki/Deanery" title="Deanery">deanery</a> or <i><a href="/wiki/Vicar#Roman_Catholic" title="Vicar">vicariate forane</a></i> (or simply <i>vicariate</i>), overseen by a <a href="/wiki/Dean_(Christianity)" title="Dean (Christianity)">dean</a> or <i>vicar forane</i>, or in some cases by an <a href="/wiki/Archpriest" title="Archpriest">archpriest</a>. Some churches of the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a> have deaneries as units of an <a href="/wiki/Archdeaconry" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdeaconry">archdeaconry</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Outstations"><span class="anchor" id="outstations"></span>Outstations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Outstations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Outstation_(disambiguation)" class="mw-redirect mw-disambig" title="Outstation (disambiguation)">Outstation</a>.</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Not to be confused with <a href="/wiki/Mission_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Mission station">Mission station</a>.</div> <p>An outstation is a newly-created congregation, a term usually used where the church is <a href="/wiki/Evangelical" class="mw-redirect" title="Evangelical">evangelical</a>, or a <a href="/wiki/Christian_mission" title="Christian mission">mission</a> and particularly in African countries,<sup id="cite_ref-cameroon_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cameroon-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tree_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tree-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but also historically in Australia.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They exist mostly within the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Catholic</a> and <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Anglican</a> parishes.<sup id="cite_ref-cameroon_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cameroon-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-tree_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tree-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-southwark_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-southwark-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Anglican Diocese of Cameroon describes their outstations as the result of <a href="/wiki/Outreach" title="Outreach">outreach</a> work "initiated, sponsored and supervised by the mother parishes". Once there is a big enough group of worshippers in the same place, the outstation in named by the bishop of the diocese. They are run by "<a href="/wiki/Catechist" class="mw-redirect" title="Catechist">catechists</a>/evangelists" or lay readers, and supervised by the creator parish or <a href="/wiki/Archdeaconry" class="mw-redirect" title="Archdeaconry">archdeaconry</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-cameroon_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cameroon-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outstations are not self-supporting, and in poor areas often consist of a very simple structure. The parish priest visits as often as possible. If and when the community has grown enough, the outstation may become a parish and have a parish priest assigned to it.<sup id="cite_ref-tree_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tree-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Catholic_Church">Catholic Church</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Catholic Church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg/220px-Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="179" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg/330px-Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg/440px-Opatow_church_20070430_0936.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2242" data-file-height="1828" /></a><figcaption>Saint Martin's Collegiate Parish Church in <a href="/wiki/Opat%C3%B3w" title="Opatów">Opatów</a>, <a href="/wiki/Poland" title="Poland">Poland</a></figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Parish_(Catholic_Church)" title="Parish (Catholic Church)">Parish (Catholic Church)</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Team_of_priests_in_solidum" title="Team of priests in solidum">Team of priests in solidum</a></div> <p>In the Catholic Church, each parish normally has its own <a href="/wiki/Parish_priest" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish priest">parish priest</a> (in some countries called <a href="/wiki/Pastor" title="Pastor">pastor</a> or <a href="/wiki/Provost_(religion)" title="Provost (religion)">provost</a>), who has responsibility and canonical authority over the parish.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>What in most English-speaking countries is termed the "parish priest" is referred to as the "pastor" in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>, where the term "parish priest" is used of any priest assigned to a parish even in a subordinate capacity. These are called "assistant priests",<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "parochial vicars",<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> "<a href="/wiki/Curate#Catholic_Church" title="Curate">curates</a>", or, in the United States, "associate pastors" and "assistant pastors". </p><p>Each diocese (administrative region) is divided into parishes, each with their own central church called the <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a>, where religious services take place. Some larger parishes or parishes that have been combined under one parish priest may have two or more such churches, or the parish may be responsible for <a href="/wiki/Chapels" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapels">chapels</a> (or <a href="/wiki/Chapels_of_ease" class="mw-redirect" title="Chapels of ease">chapels of ease</a>) located at some distance from the <a href="/wiki/Mother_church" title="Mother church">mother church</a> for the convenience of distant parishioners.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In addition to a parish church, each parish may maintain auxiliary organizations and their facilities such as a <a href="/wiki/Rectory" class="mw-redirect" title="Rectory">rectory</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_hall" title="Church hall">parish hall</a>, <a href="/wiki/Parochial_school" title="Parochial school">parochial school</a>, or <a href="/wiki/Convent" title="Convent">convent</a>, frequently located on the same campus or adjacent to the church. </p><p>Normally, a parish comprises all Catholics living within its geographically defined area, but non-territorial parishes can also be established within a defined area on a personal basis for Catholics belonging to a particular <a href="/wiki/Particular_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Particular Church">rite</a>, language, nationality, or community.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An example is that of personal parishes established in accordance with the 7 July 2007 <i><a href="/wiki/Motu_proprio" title="Motu proprio">motu proprio</a></i> <i><a href="/wiki/Summorum_Pontificum" title="Summorum Pontificum">Summorum Pontificum</a></i> for those attached to the pre-<a href="/wiki/Vatican_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Vatican II">Vatican II</a> liturgy.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Church_of_England">Church of England</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Church of England"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main articles: <a href="/wiki/Parish_(Church_of_England)" title="Parish (Church of England)">Parish (Church of England)</a>, <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England#Structure" title="Church of England">Church of England § Structure</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England_parish_church" title="Church of England parish church">Church of England parish church</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Advowson" title="Advowson">Advowson</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg/220px-Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="294" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg/330px-Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg/440px-Hasfield_Parish_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2580" data-file-height="3447" /></a><figcaption>St Mary's parish church in <a href="/wiki/Hasfield" title="Hasfield">Hasfield</a>, <a href="/wiki/Gloucestershire" title="Gloucestershire">Gloucestershire</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a>'s geographical structure uses the local parish church as its basic unit. The parish system survived the <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Reformation">Reformation</a> with the Anglican Church's <a href="/wiki/Church_of_England#Secession_from_Rome" title="Church of England">secession from Rome</a> remaining largely untouched; thus, it shares its roots with the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>'s system described below. Parishes may extend into different counties or hundreds and historically many parishes comprised extra outlying portions in addition to its principal district, usually being described as 'detached' and intermixed with the lands of other parishes. Church of England parishes nowadays all lie within one of <a href="/wiki/List_of_Church_of_England_dioceses" title="List of Church of England dioceses">42 dioceses</a> divided between the provinces of <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Canterbury" title="Province of Canterbury">Canterbury</a>, 30 and <a href="/wiki/Province_of_York" title="Province of York">York</a>, 12.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Each parish normally has its own parish priest (either a <a href="/wiki/Vicar" title="Vicar">vicar</a> or <a href="/wiki/Rector_(ecclesiastical)" title="Rector (ecclesiastical)">rector</a>, owing to the vagaries of the feudal <a href="/wiki/Tithe" title="Tithe">tithe</a> system: rectories usually having had greater income) and perhaps supported by one or more <a href="/wiki/Curate" title="Curate">curates</a> or <a href="/wiki/Deacon" title="Deacon">deacons</a> - although as a result of ecclesiastical <a href="/wiki/Benefice#Pluralism_in_England" title="Benefice">pluralism</a> some parish priests might have held more than one parish <a href="/wiki/Advowson" title="Advowson">living</a>, placing a curate in charge of those where they do not reside. Now, however, it is common for a number of neighbouring parishes to be placed under one <a href="/wiki/Benefice" title="Benefice">benefice</a> in the charge of a priest who conducts services by rotation, with additional services being provided by <a href="/wiki/Lay_reader" class="mw-redirect" title="Lay reader">lay readers</a> or other non-ordained members of the church community. </p><p>A <a href="/wiki/Chapelry" title="Chapelry">chapelry</a> was a subdivision of an <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_parish" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecclesiastical parish">ecclesiastical parish</a> in <a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a>, and parts of <a href="/wiki/Lowland_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Lowland Scotland">Lowland Scotland</a> up to the mid 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It had a similar status to a <a href="/wiki/Township_(England)" title="Township (England)">township</a> but was so named as it had a <a href="/wiki/Chapel_of_ease" title="Chapel of ease">chapel</a> which acted as a subsidiary place of worship to the main parish church.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In England <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England#History" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">civil parishes</a> and their governing <a href="/wiki/Parish_councils_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish councils in England">parish councils</a> evolved in the 19th century as ecclesiastical parishes began to be relieved of what became considered to be civic responsibilities. Thus their boundaries began to diverge. The word "parish" acquired a secular usage. Since 1895, a parish council elected by public vote or a (civil) parish meeting administers a civil parish and is formally recognised as the level of local government below a <a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">district council</a>. </p><p>The traditional structure of the Church of England with the parish as the basic unit has been exported to other countries and churches throughout the <a href="/wiki/Anglican_Communion" title="Anglican Communion">Anglican Communion</a> and <a href="/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Nations" title="Commonwealth of Nations">Commonwealth</a> but does not necessarily continue to be administered in the same way. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Church_of_Scotland">Church of Scotland</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Church of Scotland"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="anchor" id="Scotland"></span> <span class="anchor" id="Church_of_Scotland"></span> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_local_government_in_Scotland" title="History of local government in Scotland">History of local government in Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/List_of_Church_of_Scotland_parishes" title="List of Church of Scotland parishes">List of Church of Scotland parishes</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_Scotland" title="Civil parishes in Scotland">Civil parishes in Scotland</a></div> <p>The parish is also the basic level of church administration in the <a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland">Church of Scotland</a>. Spiritual oversight of each parish church in <a href="/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland">Scotland</a> is responsibility of the congregation's <a href="/wiki/Kirk_Session" class="mw-redirect" title="Kirk Session">Kirk Session</a>. Patronage was regulated in 1711 (<a href="/wiki/Church_Patronage_(Scotland)_Act_1711" title="Church Patronage (Scotland) Act 1711">Patronage Act</a>) and abolished in 1874, with the result that <a href="/wiki/Minister_(Christianity)" title="Minister (Christianity)">ministers</a> must be elected by members of the congregation. Many parish churches in Scotland today are "linked" with neighbouring parish churches served by a single minister. Since the <a href="/wiki/Local_Government_(Scotland)_Act_1929" title="Local Government (Scotland) Act 1929">abolition of parishes as a unit of civil government in Scotland</a> in 1929, Scottish parishes have purely ecclesiastical significance and the boundaries may be adjusted by the local Presbytery. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Church_in_Wales">Church in Wales</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Church in Wales"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St_James%27s_Church,_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/St_James%27s_Church%2C_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg/220px-St_James%27s_Church%2C_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="162" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/St_James%27s_Church%2C_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg/330px-St_James%27s_Church%2C_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/St_James%27s_Church%2C_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg/440px-St_James%27s_Church%2C_Manorbier_-_geograph.org.uk_-_928738.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="472" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/St_James%27s_Church,_Manorbier" title="St James's Church, Manorbier">St James's</a> church in <a href="/wiki/Manorbier" title="Manorbier">Manorbier</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pembrokeshire" title="Pembrokeshire">Pembrokeshire</a>, is a parish church dating from the 12th century and is a Grade I listed building</figcaption></figure> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a></div> <p>The Church in Wales was <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Church_Act_1914" title="Welsh Church Act 1914">disestablished</a> in 1920 and is made up of six dioceses. It retained the parish system and parishes were also civil administration areas until <a href="/wiki/Community_(Wales)" title="Community (Wales)">communities</a> were established in 1974, but did not necessarily share the same boundaries. The reduction in the numbers of worshippers, and the increasing costs of maintaining often ancient buildings, led over time to parish reorganisation, parish groupings and Rectorial Benefices (merged parishes led by a Rector). </p><p>In 2010, the Church in Wales engaged the Rt Rev Richard Harries (Lord Harries of Pentregarth), a former Church of England Bishop of Oxford; Prof Charles Handy; and Prof Patricia Peattie, to carry out a review into the organisation of the Church and make recommendations as to its future shape. The group published its report ("Church in Wales Review") in July 2012 and proposed that parishes should be reorganised into larger Ministry Areas (Ardaloedd Gweinidogaeth). It stated that: </p><p>"The parish system... is no longer sustainable" </p><p>and suggested that the Ministry Areas should each have a leadership team containing lay people as well as clergy, following the principles of 'collaborative ministry'. Over the next decade, the six dioceses all implemented the report, with the final Ministry Areas being instituted in 2022. In the Diocese of St Asaph (Llanelwy), they are known as Mission Areas (Ardaloedd Cenhadaeth) </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Methodist_Church">Methodist Church</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Methodist Church"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the <a href="/wiki/United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church">United Methodist Church</a> congregations are called parishes, though they are more often simply called congregations and have no geographic boundaries. A prominent example of this usage comes in <i>The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church</i>, in which the committee of every local congregation that handles staff support is referred to as the committee on Pastor-Parish Relations. This committee gives recommendations to the bishop on behalf of the parish/congregation since it is the United Methodist Bishop of the <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_area_(United_Methodist_Church)" title="Episcopal area (United Methodist Church)">episcopal area</a> who appoints a pastor to each congregation. The same is true in the <a href="/wiki/African_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="African Methodist Episcopal Church">African Methodist Episcopal Church</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Christian_Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Christian Methodist Episcopal Church">Christian Methodist Episcopal Church</a>. </p><p>In New Zealand, a local grouping of Methodist churches that share one or more <a href="/wiki/Minister_of_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Minister of religion">ministers</a> (which in the United Kingdom would be called a <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Circuit" class="mw-redirect" title="Methodist Circuit">circuit</a>) is referred to as a parish. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">Parish church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_pump" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish pump">Parish pump</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parish_register" title="Parish register">Parish registers</a>: <a href="/wiki/Birth_certificate" title="Birth certificate">Birth certificate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Marriage_certificate" title="Marriage certificate">Marriage certificate</a>, <a href="/wiki/Death_certificate" title="Death certificate">Death certificate</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Collegiate_church" title="Collegiate church">Collegiate church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Priory" title="Priory">Priory church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathedral" title="Cathedral">Cathedral</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Parochial_school" title="Parochial school">Parochial school</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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Clarke, 1799</li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Parish&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Hart, A. Tindal (1959) <i>The Country Priest in English History</i>. London: Phoenix House</li> <li>--do.-- (1958) <i>The Country Clergy in Elizabethan & Stuart Times, 1558-1660</i>. London: Phoenix House</li> <li>--do.-- (1955) <i>The Eighteenth Century Country Parson, circa 1689 to 1830</i>, Shrewsbury: Wilding & Son</li> <li>--do.-- & Carpenter, E. F. (1954) <i>The Nineteenth Century Country Parson; circa 1832-1900</i>. 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