parishes

noun

1. 1.In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
2. 2.The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
3. 3.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.
4. 4.A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
5. 5.An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.