A Christian church building having a nave with a semicircular apse, side aisles, a narthex and a clerestory.
A Roman Catholic church or cathedral with basilican status, an honorific status granted by the pope to recognize its historical, architectural, or sacramental importance.
The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area.
A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
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.
An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
To visit residents of a parish.