Words similar to parish

Example sentences for: parish

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Just down from the castle, the parish church, Igreja de Santa Maria, has handsome blue 18th-century azulejos, an odd blue-painted ceiling, and the gilded tomb in the north wall.
Returning to my childhood Catholic parish for Easter Mass a couple of years ago, I was struck by the thought that the service (a term never applied to Catholic worship in my altar boy days in the early 1960s) would have scandalized past pastors.
The word started out as a political subdivision, just like wards in most North American cities, but became the equivalent of a parish.
Eventually every Chicano community had its own parish, due usually to the commitment and work of one individual priest in the diocese.
Many writers have collected gems of Sussex dialect down the years, like Rev. William Parish and another cleric, Rev. Edward Boys Ellman, both before World War I.