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A parish is a church territorial unit constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor (its association with the parish church remaining paramount). By extension the term ''parish'' refers not only to the territorial unit but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ''ex-officio'', vested in him on his institution to that parish. ==Etymology and use== First attested in English in the late 13th century, the word ''parish'' comes from the Old French ''paroisse'', in turn from (ラテン語:paroecia),〔(paroecia ), Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', on Perseus〕 the latinisation of the , "sojourning in a foreign land",〔(παροικία ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 itself from (''paroikos''), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner",〔(πάροικος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 which is a compound of (''pará''), "beside, by, near"〔(παρά ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 and οἶκος (''oîkos''), "house".〔(οἶκος ), Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus〕 As an ancient concept, the term "parish" occurs in the long-established Christian denominations: Roman Catholic, Anglican Communion, the Eastern Orthodox Church, and Lutheran churches, and in some Methodist and Presbyterian administrations. The eighth Archbishop of Canterbury Theodore of Tarsus (c. 602–690) applied to the Anglo-Saxon township unit, where it existed, the ecclesiastical term "parish". 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」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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