(n.) That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
(n.) The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
(n.) 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.
(n.) In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.
Example Sentences:
(1) A study was undertaken to determine the magnitude of the charges and costs and the sources of reimbursements for the care of cerebrovascular disease (CVD) patients in an urban setting, Orleans Parish (County), Louisiana, in 1971.
(2) The St Anna parish – Sant’Anna dei Palafrenieri in Italian – accepted one of two families it promised to take in: a father, mother and two children who fled their home in Damascus.
(3) The solicitor did a search, they went through the parish records and local histories, they got a sworn statement from the vendors: in the 150-plus years since it was built, the farm had never flooded.
(4) He skirted round the issue of historic responsibility for the misery but referred to the sheer scale of the sacrifice, pointing out that, among more than 14,000 parishes in the whole of England and Wales, only about 50 so-called "thankful parishes" saw all their soldiers return.
(5) An alliance of Church of England parishes meeting this week for the first time could be the first step towards a split, the vicar leading the talks has suggested.
(6) Except for this parish, the sulfate process predominated in the plants included.
(7) Children with special needs also had to flee St Matthews parish hall during the attack on the Lower Newtownards Road.
(8) Fifty-eight households were studied in the Red Pond community, the site of the established smelter and several backyard smelters, and 21 households were studied in the adjacent, upwind Ebony Vale community in Saint Catherine Parish, Jamaica.
(9) Above all, through the offices of his medium and lover, Mary Parish, he entered into elaborate relations both with the fairy world and with God and His Angels.
(10) The kinetics of the previously reported paired basic residue-specific pro-opiomelanocortin-converting enzyme from bovine pituitary intermediate lobe secretory vesicles (Loh, Y. P., Parish, D.C., and Tuteja, R. (1985) J. Biol.
(11) The church had already been under fire over the sexual misbehaviour of several priests in various Irish parishes.
(12) Instead, he called on Catholic parishes to offer sanctuary to refugee families.
(13) Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced father-of-five, was one of dozens of clergy in December 2012 who signed a letter to the Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry elsewhere.
(14) I don’t think the official C of E is particularly comfortable with the inclusive and progressive stance these parishes have taken.
(15) Father Philip North, who is team rector at the parish of Old St Pancras in north London, said that local reservations over his appointment — and the divisions exacerbated by last month's General Synod vote against female bishops — meant it would be impossible for him to be "a focus for unity" as bishop of Whitby.
(16) The fact is that the vast majority of our petitioning parishes are in the Cleveland archdeaconry and so the see of Whitby is the obvious choice for such episcopal provision where the diocesan bishop is an outspoken advocate of women's ministry."
(17) Multiple regression analysis was applied to cancer mortalities adjusted for age and urban residency, and specific for race, sex, amount of standing water area in the parish, and cancer site.
(18) Parish is understood to have been impressed by both the former Tottenham manager Sherwood and Mackay – who was sacked by Cardiff last December – but there are thought to be several sticking points with each choice.
(19) I want to do my best for him because he’s made a big effort to get me to come here, as well as the chairman, so I have to say a big thank you to both of them.” While Palace will add further to their squad, and are to enter the running for Charlie Austin at QPR as well as Chelsea’s Loïc Rémy , the co-chairman Steve Parish is also intent on retaining key players from the side who finished 10th last season.
(20) The children were identified from hospital charts, population listings, and parish registries.
Presbytery
Definition:
(n.) A body of elders in the early Christian church.
(n.) A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority.
(n.) The Presbyterian religion of polity.
(n.) That part of the church reserved for the officiating priest.
(n.) The residence of a priest or clergyman.
Example Sentences:
(1) Over the past year, 29 presbyteries have approved such a move, and 19 opposed it.
(2) This decision was in line with a majority of presbyteries who voted in favour of such a move.” Because the debate predates the legalisation of gay marriage, the proposed change mentions only civil partnerships, not same-sex marriages.
(3) Furness said Ronald Mulkearns, who was made bishop of Ballarat in 1971, moved Ridsdale due to complaints over “inappropriate behaviour” including reports from two parents that a boy was living at the Mortlake presbytery with him.
(4) Congregations and presbyteries should think about how they might mobilise to ‘adopt a family’ and support them in their practical and human needs,” the church’s president, Stuart McMillan, said.
(5) Owners Arnaud and Armelle Raillard have an eye for all things arty and have tastefully renovated this former presbytery with limewashed walls, warm colours and funky furniture.
(6) This included 31 of the church’s presbyteries endorsing the move to 14 who opposed it.