Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.

The gap between the ecumenical perspective and the parish perspective appears most starkly in a church in any of our comfortable suburbs.

I did my shopping, had my dentist appointment, and from there I went to the women's lunch at our parish church where we discussed plans for the annual Christmas bazaar, so that dusk was beginning to gather when I drove home in the late afternoon.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

:" for a bad custom has prevailed amongst the clergy, of appointing the most powerful people of a parish stewards, or, rather, patrons, of their churches ; who, in process of time, from a desire of gain, have usurped the whole right, appropriating to their own use the possession of all the lands, leaving only to the clergy the altars, with their tenths and oblations, and assigning even these to their sons and relations in the church.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

Also in this parish is St. Joseph's church, Cwmaman.

In the Church of Scotland, which has a Presbyterian church structure, the word " bishop " refers to an ordained person, usually a normal parish minister, who has temporary oversight of a trainee minister.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

The forms of parish worship in the late medieval church in England, which followed the Latin Roman Rite, varied according to local practice.

The whole act of parish worship might take well over two hours ; and accordingly, churches were equipped with pews in which households could sit together ( whereas in the medieval church, men and women had worshipped separately ).

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

In addition to being a place of worship, the cathedral or parish church was used by the community in other ways.

On 20 May 1841, he was baptized in the local parish church, Notre-Dame-de-Lorette, as Oscar-Claude, but his parents called him simply Oscar.

The first Protestant parish church was erected on the hilltop in 1627.

The nature of the ceremony, however, varies according to the orientation of the priest, parish, diocese or regional church.

He died six days later, of unknown causes, at King's Place, Hackney, and was buried on 6 July in the parish church of St. Augustine.

Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.

The show revolves around the priests ' lives on Craggy Island, sometimes dealing with matters of the church but more often dealing with Father Ted's schemes to either resolve a situation with the parish or other Craggy Island residents, or to win games of one-upmanship against his arch-nemesis, Father Dick Byrne of the nearby Rugged Island parish.

The government building is located in the centre of the capital city, in front of the parish church of the Virgin of Rosario, the patron saint of Puerto del Rosario municipality.

He studied theology and canon law, and after acting as parish priest in his native diocese for twelve years was sent by the pope to Canada as a bishop's chaplain.

If this etymology is combined with the tradition reported by Geoffrey of Monmouth stating that Ambrosius Aurelianus ordered the building of Stonehenge – which is located within the parish of Amesbury ( and where Ambrosius was supposedly buried ) – and with the presence of an Iron Age hill fort also in that parish, then it may be tempting to connect Ambrosius with Amesbury.

The area was part of the ancient Monmouthshire parish of Mynyddislwyn until the late 19th century.

In the early years of Aberdare's development, most of the coal worked in the parish was coking coal, and was consumed locally, chiefly in the ironworks.

Coal mined in Aberdare parish rose from in 1844 to in 1850, and the coal trade, which after 1875 was the chief support of the town, soon reached huge dimensions.

The nearby St John the Baptist Church of the same parish was originally built in the 13th century, with some of the original architecture still intact.

It was after this, while Kirk was minister of Aberfoyle parish, that he died in unusual circumstances.

The area was anciently part of the parish of Trevethin, in Monmouthshire.

However, there was still £ 13, 000 to pay on a mortgage, a fairly large amount of money in the 1880s, and Henry was at the time still only a mere parish priest.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish ; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.

George Herbert was however, not alone in his enthusiasm for preaching which he regarded as one of the prime functions of a parish priest.

Mutley was originally the name of two parishes to the west of this road in the valley of the Houndiscombe Brook, the land to the east being part of the parish of Lipson.

The town church of Gruyères originally belonged to the parish of Bulle.

The borough originally had several civil parishes or parts of parishes within it but these were all merged into a single civil parish of Carlisle in 1904.

This Grote Kerk or Sint-Bavokerk was originally a parish church devoted to Maria, but was later named after the patron saint of Haarlem, Saint Bavo, who descended from Heaven regularly to free the Haarlemmers from invaders, most recently when the Kennemers and West-Friesians attacked in 1274.

Tintagel (; ; originally Trevena from ) is a civil parish and village situated on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

* Hove became a local board of health in the late 19th century, originally covering the parish of Hove

Harmondsworth was originally a parish, with the name first recorded in AD 780 when King Offa granted land to his servant Aeldred.

Mottingham was originally a hamlet in Eltham parish, in the Blackheath hundred of Kent.

St Pancras was originally a medieval parish, which ran from close to what is now Oxford Street north as far as Highgate, and from what is now Regent's Park in the west to the road now known as York Way in the east, boundaries which take in much of the current London Borough of Camden, including the central part of it.

Uxbridge originally formed a chapelry within the parish of Hillingdon.

It was laid out as a residential district from 1791 and was originally part of the manor of Kentish Town and the parish of St Pancras, Middlesex.

The parish church of West Looe was originally at Talland but there was a chapel of ease in the town.

Loddon has many fine buildings ; from the 15th-century parish church of Holy Trinity, through the 18th-century " Loddon House " ( originally a mental institution ), to " Farthing Green House ", which is a good example of Georgian architecture.

Woodbridge was originally called " Amity ", having been carved out of land originally belonging to New Haven and Milford as an independent parish in 1739.

Holy Trinity was originally a Polish parish.

The town of Windham was originally a parish of Londonderry.

The Park Performing Arts Center was originally built in 1931 by the German congregation the Catholic parish of Holy Family Church ( and still owned by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark ) to house their cultural and educational programs Its outstanding feature is the Park Theater which seats 1, 400.

Founded in 1917, the parish was originally located in downtown Mars, but by the early 2000s, membership had swelled so much that a new facility was constructed just outside of the neighboring Seven Fields borough along PA 228 in 2008.

In 2004, Holy Trinity Church, originally designated as an ethnic Slovakian parish, was closed and consolidated with St. Michael the Archangel Church ( originally designated as an ethnic Polish parish ).