County vs. Parish

Countynoun

(historical) The land ruled by a count or a countess.

Countynoun

An administrative region of various countries, including Bhutan, Canada, China, Croatia, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States.

Countynoun

A definitive geographic region, without direct administrative functions.

Countynoun

A jail operated by a county government.

Countyadjective

Characteristic of a ‘county family’; representative of the gentry or aristocracy of a county.

Countynoun

An earldom; the domain of a count or earl.

Countynoun

A circuit or particular portion of a state or kingdom, separated from the rest of the territory, for certain purposes in the administration of justice and public affairs; - called also a shire. See Shire.

Countynoun

A count; an earl or lord.

Countynoun

a region created by territorial division for the purpose of local government;

Countynoun

the largest administrative district within a state;

County

A county is a geographical region of a country used for administrative or other purposes in certain modern nations. The term is derived from the Old French conté or cunté denoting a jurisdiction under the sovereignty of a count (earl) or a viscount.

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.