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PARISH
- an ecclesiastical district [n PARISHES]
- district having its own church and clergy
- local church and its activities
- meagerly or inadequately supplied
- receiving charity from local authorities
- the ecclesiastical unit of area committed to one pastor
- subdivision of a county often coinciding with an original ecclesiastical parish and constituting the unit of local government
- local church community composed of the members or constituents of a Protestant church
- civil division of the state of Louisiana corresponding to a county in other states