(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.
Synodal
Definition:
(a.) Synodical.
(n.) A tribute in money formerly paid to the bishop or archdeacon, at the time of his Easter visitation, by every parish priest, now made to the ecclesiastical commissioners; a procuration.
(n.) A constitution made in a provincial or diocesan synod.
Example Sentences:
(1) The book is being launched this weekend, in the run-up to the church’s General Synod in York next month.
(2) 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.
(3) Part of the problem is procedural: that the will of the church’s parliament, the General Synod, is easily thwarted by a tiny minority of its members.
(4) He stressed that it was “not a magisterial document” but “a work in progress” that provided the basis for another synod next autumn.
(5) In a context where there is no discipline within the church for its current teaching, or very limited discipline, we are being asked to have a conversation that focuses on us, rather than focusing on what God’s word teaches.” Another conservative evangelical group, Christian Concern, planned to distribute “pledge cards” to synod members, aimed at upholding traditional teaching on marriage.
(6) It could, he said, be put to the vote when the synod meets in York in July.
(7) In the final report of an extraordinary synod on the family which has exposed deep divides in the church hierarchy, there is no mention – as there had been in a draft version – of the “gifts and qualities” gay people can offer.
(8) 12 studies are reviewed that have examined the relationships among crisis calls to police stations, poison centers, and crisis intervention centers and the synodic lunar cycle.
(9) Among test integers 6 through 33, the number 30, approximating the 29.53-day lunar-synodic month, was consistently and statistically a best-fit multiple to the data.
(10) Although female bishops were approved by the majority of dioceses, bishops and clergy, they were rejected by the laity on Tuesday when put to a vote in the synod, the church's governing body.
(11) As the conservative MP who speaks for the synod in parliament said: "I think the great danger for the church following the vote is that it will be seen increasingly as just like any other sect."
(12) The number of bishops in the Holy Synod increased from 20 to 83; four bishops were ordained in Britain, where 30,000 Egyptian Copts live.
(13) Synod members will be urged to refrain from disclosing the content of discussions on social media.
(14) The working group is due to meet again next month, and new proposals on female bishops will be put to the General Synod in July.
(15) His plea comes a day after the synod approved plans to fast-track legislation that could see the first female bishop chosen by the end of the year.
(16) But his proudest moment came in October, 1980 when he led the bishops in Rome for the Synod to Subiaco, where St Benedict began his monastic life.
(17) Synod member Christina Rees, who has campaigned for women in the church for 25 years, said women should eventually make up a high proportion of senior roles.
(18) In an internal memo the secretary general of the synod, William Fittall, urged the church to pursue an "urgent and radical" new strategy in order to see women in the episcopate by 2015.
(19) The Church of England said that, in all, 72.6% of synod members had backed the measure in the crucial vote, which came at the end of more than 100 passionate and moving speeches.
(20) It took two months of Waite's negotiating skills to gain their release, which Runcie was able to announce at a dramatic moment in the middle of the 1981 February general synod.