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In the Anglican, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran and Roman Catholic Church, an administrative part of a diocese that has its own church.

The community attending that church; the members of the parish.

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.

A civil subdivision of a British county, often corresponding to an earlier ecclesiastical parish.

To place (an area, or rarely a person) into one or more parishes.

Example: 1991, Melissa Bradley Kirkpatrick, Re-parishing the Countryside: Progressivism and Religious Interests in Rural Life Reform, 1908-1934

To visit residents of a parish.

To decay and disappear; to waste away to nothing.

To decay in such a way that it can't be used for its original purpose

To die; to cease to live.

To cause to perish.