The head of a monastery of the Eastern Orthodox Church or Eastern Catholic Churches.
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.
To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
To visit residents of a parish.