In some Christian denominations, for example, the Anglican Communion, parish churches may maintain a chair for the use of the bishop when he visits ; this is to signify the parish's union with the bishop.

As of 2006, with the replacement of the parish priest Father Michael Tuck, for the first time in the parish's history, females may be chosen to be altar-servers.

A major event in the parish's transition from a bedroom community of commuters to a more diverse and independent economic unit occurred in 2008 with the relocation of Chevron's regional corporate headquarters from downtown New Orleans to an office park outside of Covington.

The parish's population doubled in size from 1940 to 1950 and again from 1950 to 1960 as the parents behind the post – World War II baby boom, profiting from rising living standards and dissatisfied with their old neighborhoods, chose relocation to new neighborhoods of detached single-family housing.

The local man chosen to carry the parish's request to Hartford had a somewhat eccentric manner of dress, however, and when he appeared before the Legislature he was dressed in loud, parti-colored homespun so odd as to bring to the mind of one amused legislator the query of Isaiah: 63, I: " Who is this that cometh from Edom, with dyed garments from Bozrah?

Stoke Mandeville Hospital, although named after the village, is located on the parish's border with Aylesbury and has the largest spinal injuries ward in Europe.

Parts of the " plantations and pleasure grounds of Belvoir Castle ... are in this parish "; Belvoir castle was supplied with water from the parish's Holywell spring.

Later St. James the Great became the parish's principal church, with Castlethorpe as its dependent chapel.

Its southern boundary is a brook called the Birne, and this and the parish's western boundary form part of the county boundary with Oxfordshire.

In 1894 the parish's boundaries were altered somewhat, with the parts in Quickmere Middle Division ( Springhead ), Mossley and Uppermill becoming Urban Districts.

In 1883, some land for the new workhouse on Buckingham Palace Road was bought from the new Duke of Westminster, Hugh Grosvenor, thricely-great-grand-nephew of the Baronet who originally sold the site of the burial ground, and paupers were transferred both to there and the parish's other workhouse at Little Chelsea on the Fulham Road, with the workhouse finally being demolished in 1886 and converted into more parish offices.

The Kennet and Avon Canal forms part of the parish's boundaries with Woolhampton and Padworth.

Due to the parish's location within the Kennet Valley there is a high concentration of alluvium, with the content largely determined by the London Clay Formation, the Bagshot Formation, and the Bracklesham Beds.

The parish is adjacent to the village of Maiden Newton, with which the parish's hamlets are virtually contiguous.

In 1944, Bishop S. Arthur Huston reopened discussions with the parish's bankers in St. Louis, Missouri ; over the next three years, more funds were raised, and in 1947 the mortgage was paid off.

* Late 1990s: In conjunction with the parish's building campaign, a plan was set out with Foley-Baker, Inc., for the cleaning and refurbishment of both organs and their joint console.

Essentially, the parish's economy is driven by primary resource production that includes fishing and agriculture, with secondary industries associated with these sectors, including civil construction, fish-processing and some milk-processing facilities.

At its most rural, the parish's many villages ( such as the seafront " Fitts Village ") are abuzz with activity, near-familial camaraderie, and an active social atmosphere.

Scoil Eoin in the village of Innishannon itself, Knockavilla, Cork to the north of the parish opposite St. Patrick's Church-the second church of the parish, Gurrane National School ( sometimes called Gurranes ) near Crossbarry, and Castleack National School near the parish's boundary with Bandon.

Also, the porto is a site of a ravine and hill that links Paul do Mar with Prazeres, and was once the parish's few land accesses to the rest of the island.

The parishioners wanted to replace the community house and open terrace with a speculative high-rise commercial structure that would re-capitalize the parish's depleted funds ; following a series of public hearing the Landmarks Preservation Commission turned down the plans for a fifty-nine story office building The case, St. Bartholomew's vs New York Landmarks Preservation Commission ( 1990 ), raised as a constitutional issue the question whether churches and religious buildings should be exempt from historic ordinances.

The parish's main Gaelic football pitch and two secondary schools are on the mainland at Poll Raithní.

The main focus was on the poor and the landlords (" lairds ") and gentry, and their servants, were not subject to the parish's control.

These schools include: Holy Name School which serves Holy Name of Jesus parish ( now operating at the site of the former Assumption parish's Church ): Saint Joan of Arc School which serves Saint Rose de Lima Church on Grattan Street ; and Saint Stanislaus School which serves the St. Stanislaus Bishop & Martyr's Parish Bishop and Martyr on Front Street.

By late 1990s, the parish's workers felt that regular churches ' attitudes towards metalheads, rockers and punks had become more permissive, and therefore did not feel the need to keep Sanctuary going on any longer, hence, most of the parishes of Sanctuary were closed.

Tickets were sold to the dedication to ease the parish's debt level, managed by a lay Board of Trustees, but to no avail and the property mortgage was finally foreclosed on and the church sold at auction in 1844.

On April 6, 2002, Hennigan, a Democrat, ran in a special election for Place 8 on the Caddo Parish Commission, his parish's governing body.

This growth in the number of workhouses was prompted by the Workhouse Test Act of 1723 ; by obliging anyone seeking poor relief to enter a workhouse and undertake a set amount of work, usually for no pay ( a system called indoor relief ), the Act helped prevent irresponsible claims on a parish's poor rate.

This discovery was made by three members of the parish's Committee on Church Cultural Heritage in the year 2001.

It was re-discovered by three members of the St. Francis parish's Committee on Church Cultural Heritage in the year 2001.

The parish's other burial ground, on Bayswater Road, closed shortly afterwards, and the Hanwell Cemetery in west London was used instead.

Veryan attracts tourism due to its location on the Roseland Peninsula and has bed and breakfasts, hotels and guest houses. The round houses are also a factor in the parish's tourism interest and are rented out for accommodation.

Inscriptions on the church's stained glass windows and on the older headstones in its adjoining cemetery are in German, reflecting the culture of the parish's founding members.

From 1608 until late 1637, tenants of the parish's Westcourt Manor included William Carpenter and his namesake son, both of whom emigrated to Weymouth, Massachusetts in 1638 on the Bevis from Southampton.

The parish's principal activities are farming and animal husbandry ( dairy and cattle ranching primarily ), focusing on dairy production, as well as subsistence fishing and a small commercial nucleus.

The parish's principal festival is the Festa de São Pedro () celebrated annually on June 29, as well as the Festa do Santo Amaro (), on the first Sunday of September.

In addition to the parish's feast day in honor of its patron saint ( Santa Catarina de Alexandria ), falling on November 25, the community also celebrates other religious events.

The parish's eastern side is bounded by the old route of the Roman Watling Street, and the village itself is sited on the crossing of two former mediaeval drove-routes.

A similar tale from the parishes early history also recounts that the parish's name "... was derived from a crystalline spring on the abandoned lands of Henrique Teixeira, who had many lands to the west of the village of Machico ".

Founded 30 April 1916 by Belorussian, Macedonian, Russian, and Ukrainian immigrants, the parish's name was originally Русская Православная Церковь Вознесенія Господня ( Russian Orthodox Ascension of Christ Church ).

In April 1711, Fray Antonio Margil de Jesús embarked on a mission in Totatiche whose historical legacy is the local vocation to the Virgen del Rosario, the town and the parish's patron saint.

A Catholic church in Nyange, Kibuye was bulldozed and attacked on 16 April 1994, killing more than 1, 500 displaced Tutsis inside, and that parish's priest, Father Athanase Seromba, was convicted of genocide in connection to that crime in 2006 at the ICTR.