national vs parish

national

adj
  • Belonging to or characteristic of a specific nation or country, as opposed to others. 

  • Pertaining to a nation or country, especially as a whole; affecting, shared by, or existing throughout all of a nation. 

noun
  • A subject of a nation. 

  • A tournament in which participants from all over the nation compete. 

  • A national newspaper. 

parish

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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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