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Example sentences for: parish

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A port for Granada in Moorish times, Almuñécar continued to enjoy a certain prestige after the Reconquest when Juan de Herrera, the architect of El Escorial, Philip II’s grand monastery cum palace near Madrid, was commissioned to design the parish church.
The word started out as a political subdivision, just like wards in most North American cities, but became the equivalent of a parish.
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 bridge that connects Somerset Island and its parish of Sandys (pronounced “Sands”) to the main island is quite short.
The parish church (which also goes by the name of Nossa Senhora do Rosário) was founded by King Dom Pedro II in 1698.