noun An administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.
noun The community attending that church; the members of the parish.
noun An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also, loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
noun In any of various countries, an administrative subdivision of an area, often of a county.
noun A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish; a similar subdivision in Ireland.
noun An administrative subdivision in the U.S. state of Louisiana that is equivalent to a county in other U.S. states.
verb To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.