parish

• archdiocese
• assembly
• bethel
• church
• churchgoers
• communion
• community
• confession
• congregation
• denomination
• flock
• fold
• laity
• parishioners
• sect
• territory

• noun
  1. In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
  2. The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
  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. A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.
  5. An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
• verb
  1. To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.
  2. To visit residents of a parish.
  3. To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.
  4. To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose.
  5. To die; to cease to live.
  6. To cause to perish.

• The small parish held a community gathering every Sunday.
• He was appointed as the new priest of the parish.
• The parish organized a fundraiser for the local school.
• Many residents of the parish volunteered at the food bank.
• The old church has been the heart of the parish for centuries.

laity

• assembly
• church
• communion
• confession
• congregation
• denomination
• flock
• fold
• laymen
• laypeople
• laywomen
• parish
• sect

ward

neighborhood

vicinage

laymen

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