parish

n//ˈpæɹɪʃ//

församling, parish

  1. (Roman Catholicism, Anglican, Lutheranism, Eastern Orthodox) An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

  2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

  3. (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.

  4. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.

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