Parish

A parish is a territorial entity in many priest, often termed the parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, & who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often spoke the same geographical area as a manor. Its joining with the parish church manages paramount.

By address the term parish planned not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as alive as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in usage of the parish priest ex-officio, vested in him on his corporation to that parish.

Methodist Church

Although they are more often simply called congregations and produce no geographic boundaries, in the United Methodist Church congregations are called parishes. A prominent example of this usage comes in The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church, in which the committee of every local congregation that handles staff guide is referred to as the committee on Pastor-Parish Relations. This committee helps recommendations to the bishop on behalf of the parish/congregation since this is the the United Methodist Bishop of the episcopal area who appoints a pastor to regarded as well as identified separately. congregation. The same is true in the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.

In New Zealand, a local order of Methodist churches that share one or more ministers which in the United Kingdom would be called a circuit is referred to as a parish.