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The parish with its local parish church is the basic unit of the Church of England. The parish within the Church of England structure has its roots in the Roman Catholic Church and survived the Reformation largely untouched. Church of England parishes are currently each within one of 44 dioceses divided between the provinces of Canterbury, with thirty dioceses and York with fourteen. Each parish is administered by a parish priest who may be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates, who are also ordained but not the parish priest. There are wide variations in the size of parishes and church-going populations. A parish priest may have responsibility for one parish or for two or more and some are part of a team ministry. By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial unit but to the people of its community or congregation. ==Etymology == From the Greek ''paroikia'', the dwellingplace of the priest, eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus (c.602–690) applied to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, the ecclesiastical term parish. First attested in English late 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French paroisse, in turn from Latin paroecia,〔(paroecia ), Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', on Perseus〕 which is the latinisation of the Greek παροικία (''paroikia''), "sojourning in a foreign land",〔(παροικία ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 itself from πάροικος (''paroikos''), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner",〔(πάροικος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 which is a compound of παρά (''para''), " beside, by, near"〔(παρά ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 + οἶκος (''oikos''), "house".〔(οἶκος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Parish (Church of England)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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