Church vs. Parish

Churchnoun

(countable) A Christian house of worship; a building where religious services take place.

Churchnoun

Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.

Churchnoun

(countable) A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.

Churchnoun

(countable) A particular denomination of Christianity.

Churchnoun

Christian worship held at a church; service.

Churchnoun

A (non-Christian) religion; a religious group.

Churchnoun

assembly

Churchverb

To conduct a religious service for (a woman) after childbirth.

Churchverb

(transitive) To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

Churchnoun

A building set apart for Christian worship.

Churchnoun

A Jewish or heathen temple.

Churchnoun

A formally organized body of Christian believers worshiping together.

Churchnoun

A body of Christian believers, holding the same creed, observing the same rites, and acknowledging the same ecclesiastical authority; a denomination; as, the Roman Catholic church; the Presbyterian church.

Churchnoun

The collective body of Christians.

Churchnoun

Any body of worshipers; as, the Jewish church; the church of Brahm.

Churchnoun

The aggregate of religious influences in a community; ecclesiastical influence, authority, etc.; as, to array the power of the church against some moral evil.

Churchverb

To bless according to a prescribed form, or to unite with in publicly returning thanks in church, as after deliverance from the dangers of childbirth; as, the churching of women.

Churchnoun

one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship

Churchnoun

a place for public (especially Christian) worship;

Churchnoun

a service conducted in a church;

Churchnoun

the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church;

Churchverb

perform a special church rite or service for;

Parishnoun

In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

Parishnoun

The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

Parishnoun

(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.

Parishnoun

A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.

Parishnoun

An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.

Parishverb

(transitive) To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.

Parishverb

(intransitive) To visit residents of a parish.

Parishnoun

That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.

Parishnoun

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.

Parishnoun

In Louisiana, a civil division corresponding to a county in other States.

Parishadjective

Of or pertaining to a parish; parochial; as, a parish church; parish records; a parish priest; maintained by the parish; as, parish poor.

Parishnoun

a local church community

Parishnoun

the local subdivision of a diocese committed to one pastor

Parish

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church.