parishes Meaning & Definition
What Does Parishes Mean?
As a noun, parishes means plural of parish.
Parishes Definition (Noun)
- plural of parish
Noun
- In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
- The community attending that church; the members of the 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.
- A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
- An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
Synonyms of Parishes
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Parishes synonyms and antonyms →Word Forms & Grammar
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