cathedral vs parish

cathedral

noun
  • The principal church of an archbishop's/bishop's archdiocese/diocese which contains an episcopal throne. 

  • A large or important church building. 

  • A large, impressive, lofty, and/or important building or place of some other kind. 

  • A large buttressed structure built by certain termites. 

name
  • In certain right-wing conspiracy theories, the mainstream system or establishment of society, held to be liberal or leftist and to be working against the interests of the people or nation, which is both. 

adj
  • Relating to the throne or the see of a bishop. 

parish

noun
  • In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church. 

  • In some countries, an administrative subdivision of an area. 

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

  • 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. 

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

  • An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states. 

verb
  • To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes. 

  • To visit residents of a parish. 

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