Parish vs Township - What's the difference?
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In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
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, title= The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
(US) 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 Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
(lb) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more es.
* 1917 , Annual Report of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Board of Home Missions and Church Extension, page 70:
* 1972 , Winter's Tales from Ireland , volume 2, page 55:
* 1991', Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, ''Re-'''parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934
* 1992 , Parish and town councils in England: a survey , pages 17 and 21:
* 2011 , Sustainable development in the Localism Bill: third report (ISBN 0215557050), page 5
To visit residents of a parish.
* 1896 , Mrs. Humphry Ward, Sir George Tressady , volume 1 (ISBN 3842496737):
* 1903 , Maxwell Gray, Richard Rosny , page 210:
* 1921 , Margaret Pedler, The Splendid Folly , page 46:
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The territory of a town; a subdivision of a county.
An area set aside for nonwhite occupation.
A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city.
* 1972', ''Daily Dispatch'': "In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured '''township''' on the site of the existing African ' township "
As nouns the difference between parish and township
is that parish is in the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic Church or certain civil government entities such as the state of Louisiana, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church while township is the territory of a town; a subdivision of a county.As a verb parish
is to place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.parish
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) paroche, parosse, from (etyl) paroisse, from .Noun
(wikipedia parish) (es)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St.?Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.}}
Derived terms
* parishioner * parish church * parish registerSee also
* parochialVerb
(en-verb)- Father Malachy, a distant cousin, who was parished somewhere in the depths of Co. Monaghan, sat firmly in the chair in the corner, sipping his tea from a china cup.
- Consequently, approaching half of the non-metropolitan population of England is parished (Table 2.2).
- The South West and East Midlands are also particularly well parished' while the North West, West Midlands and South East are poorly ' parished .
- Dr Whitehead: In your written evidence, you have all in different ways made the distinction between NDOs in parished areas and NDOs in non-parished areas,
- a chair immediately opposite to Tressady's place remained vacant. It was being kept for the eldest son of the house, his mother explaining carelessly to Lord Fontenoy that she believed he was "Out parishing somewhere, as usual."
- "You will take pleasure in parishing'. Mother used to ' parish ."
- "How do you know I like parishing ?"
- "Your uncle said so."
- "Oh! did he?"
- "And you may like the rectory people; it's a fine old house, and often full of visitors."
- "Are you going ‘parishing ’ this morning?" inquired Diana, as she watched him fill and light his pipe.