Definition: 1. A local church community. 2. The local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor.
Use 'parish' in a sentence:
1. A limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish.
2. The parish priest is someone to whom people can turn in difficult times.
3. The worst-affected areas were in Jefferson Parish.
4. Please return the completed form to the Parish Administration Office for validation.
5. My parish, when I first arrived, was in a lamentable state.
6. The national guard is working with the Parish to help that evacuation.
7. We were married, you know, at St. Clement's, because Wickham's lodgings were in that parish.
8. Many country parishes were still living in blissful ignorance of the post-war crime wave.
9. You know, there are some friends of ours from the parish.
10. They go to the parish church every week.
11. The church spire is visible from miles away, and the parish operates an adjoining school.
12. He became a rector of a small parish where he ministered for several years.
13. Public, parish, medical, etc records.
14. The little girl had come upon the parish ever since her parents died.
15. You had better say nothing of that silly sort about parish.
16. The members of this parish have got used to it, "said Father Pierangelo Motta."
17. I believe in God and try to be a good member of my parish.
18. Every parish was named after a saint.
19. The parish sang to the rafters songs of praise to a God that apparently surrendered His voice to ours.
20. In those days, full of zeal, I made a great many parish calls.
21. The members of this parish have got used to it, " said Father Pierangelo Motta.
22. We'll offer you any parish in the world.
23. It was nearly one and a half times the parish's entire annual budget.
24. This elderly Italian guy goes to his parish priest to confess.
25. He is not in touch with any one in his parish.
26. Workers wipe oil from marsh grass in St. Tammany Parish, La.
27. Father, do you know most of the people in your parish?
28. We shopped in the same streets, belonged to the same gym, and Shared the same parish church.
29. Only 37 years old, he has represented Orleans Parish in the state legislature since 2000.
30. One day a minister went to visit a home in his new parish.
31. In St Bernard Parish, which once had two hospitals, there is now none.
32. Abigail died in 1818, and is buried beside her husband in United First Parish Church.
33. His parish runs two kindergartens for children over 3.
34. When he grew older, William Smith taught himself surveying from books he bought with his small savings, and at the age of eighteen he was apprenticed to a surveyor of the local parish.
35. Lempart became ill and was left with a parish priest, while Jaster returned to Warsaw.
36. I'll discover the parish of that parishioner.
37. The parish is the basic community of our faith life.
38. Yu Jianrong is the parish priest.
39. The priest visited all the old people in the parish.
40. The Holy Family Church was closed and the parish now celebrates mass in this simple side chapel.
41. The main source for family reconstitution is the parish register.
42. Take my work for it, finest horse in the parish.
43. "It was also good for the parish as a community," says Petrouchtchak.
44. On both sides of the road rubble towers over his modest parish car.
45. But his heart was filled with greed, and he began to take advantage of the good people of his parish.
46. All this of course is outside the parish of the High North African Command.
47. Parish estimates there are approximately about 3000 people still there in that area.
48. Many were active in other parish activities such as the choir and we will continue to be, "he said."
49. Parish priests have referred to it in their sermons.
50. This was the work of Layamon, a parish priest of Ernley.
51. Near the church and the parish house, lay an old ruin that once had been a spacious building.
52. He was a warden at the local parish church.
53. He is vicar of a large rural parish.
54. The parish have welcomed the new vicar with open arms.
