The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

In some dioceses of the Russian Orthodox Church it is customary for the bishop to visit each parish or region of the diocese some time during Great Lent and give Anointing for the faithful, together with the local clergy.

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.

Also of the same parish is St. Matthew's Church ( 1891 ), Abernant.

Neighbouring St Fillan's Church is one of the best-preserved medieval parish churches in Scotland, dating largely to the 12th century.

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.

That edition has remained the official prayer book of the Church of England, although in the 21st century, an alternative book called Common Worship has largely displaced the Book of Common Prayer at the main Sunday worship service of most English parish churches.

The saint is assigned a feast day which may be celebrated anywhere within the Catholic Church, although it may or may not appear on the general calendar or local calendars as an obligatory feast, parish churches may be built in his or her honor, and the faithful may freely and without restriction celebrate and honor the saint.

Following the Reformation, the Abbey was dissolved in 1539 and the Abbey Church sold to the town in 1553 for £ 400: it became a Protestant parish church for the borough and the Lady Chapel was used as a school.

The Church of Ireland exercised functions at the level of civil parish that would later be exercised by county authorities.

The beginning of Polish parish in modern times is connected to him In XIX century Polish population of the town consisted among others of Polish soldiers in Prussian service stationed in the city, salt refining specialists from Ciechocinek, political prisoners in local Prussian and permanent Polish inhabitants In the second half of XIX century the Polish community further increased with arrival of Polish workers During the period 1875-1914 an active Polish community grew and through its funds a Catholic school and the Church of Saint Marcin where masses in Polish were held ( initially throughout the season, after about 1890 all the year ), were established.

Kansas City is also home to one Oriental Orthodox church, a parish of the Coptic Church.

The Methodist Church of Australasia merged with the majority of the Presbyterian Church of Australia and the Congregational Union of Australia in 1977, becoming the Uniting Church. Wesley Mission in Pitt Street Sydney is not only the largest parish in the Uniting Church but also strongly in the Wesleyan tradition.

The relative rise in popularity of the Evangelical movement in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries was due to a number of reasons: the on-set of the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent break up of, particularly, rural communities, was an unsettling influence on a parish like Olney ; Methodism had seen a significant growth in popularity in the same period ; and Evangelicalism was gradually finding its way into the established Church of England.

The corresponding term in the Catholic Church is " parochial vicar "-an ordained priest assigned to assist the pastor ( Latin: parochus ) of a parish in the pastoral care of parishioners.

Triumphal entry into Jerusalem, fresco in the Zirl parish church | Parish Church Zirl, Austria

Wimbledon, North Dakota has a St. Boniface Catholic Church that was established in 1886 and is still an active parish.

There were about six thousand Catholics in the parish of Abington, and only a few dozen members of the Church of Ireland.

This small park sits between Crosby Hall and Chelsea Old Church, an Anglican church on Old Church Street whose southern chapel was commissioned by More and in which he sang with his parish choir.

St Dunstan's Church, an Anglican parish church in Canterbury, possesses More's head, rescued by his beloved daughter Margaret Roper.

In the Catholic Church, one's local parish church often offers prayers for the dead on their death anniversary or on special days like All Souls ' Day.

All have access to the sea and are named after the saints to whom their ancient parish churches are dedicated.

A statue of Saint Agnes in a parish dedicated to her in Camarin, Caloocan City, Philippines.

When it was dedicated in 1254, it was the parish church of the new Gruyères parish.

The parish church is dedicated to St Andrew and is a grade II listed building.

Besides these buildings which were part of the official structures of the bishopric ; an additional four parish churches were constructed in the city: the Jacobikerk ( dedicated to Saint James ), founded in the 11th century, with the current Gothic church dating back to the 14th century ; the Buurkerk ( Neighbourhood-church ) of the 11th century parish in the centre of the city ; Nicolaichurch ( dedicated to Saint Nicholas ), from the 12th century and the 13th century Geertekerk ( dedicated to Saint Gertrude of Nivelles ).

During much of the later medieval period it was known colloquially by its Scots-speaking inhabitants as " St. John's Toun " or " Saint Johnstoun " because the church at the centre of the parish was dedicated to St. John the Baptist.

The most striking old building in the town is the parish church of St Oswald ( late 15th century ), dedicated to St Oswald, king of Northumbria ( d. 642 ), one of whose arms was brought to Zug in 1485.

Zschopau has a handsome parish church dedicated to St Martin, a town hall and a castle ( Schloss Wildeck ), whose construction started in the twelfth century.

The parish church in the town is dedicated to Saint Stephen and belongs to the Diocese of Koper.

The parish church of Southwold is dedicated to St Edmund.

A small private church dedicated to St. Audrey was built by Lord Sackville Cecil, son of the Marquess of Salisbury, on the site of Olive's Mill in 1889 ; The church and other mill premises came into the possession of the parish in 1908, and since 1925 the former Olive's Mill House has been used as the rectory.

Queen Anne subscribed to the building of the parish church on Kew Green, which was dedicated to St Anne in 1714, three months before the queen's death.

For this miracle his body was released to his followers, he achieved sainthood for his martyrdom and, in the 12th century, the parish church was dedicated to him.

Although the parish records from before 1900 were moved to Lincoln in 1988 for safe keeping, the parish library remains one of the ten biggest in England today and, with a dedicated cataloguer finally employed, is now undergoing a period of restoration work.

However, the town repaired and retains its Norman parish church, which is dedicated to St Andrew.

On August 26, 1962, Bethlehem Congregation dedicated their new school building which contained three classrooms, office, restrooms, parish hall / gym and kitchen.

Father Connors perished in a rectory fire ( central Louisiana ) and the parish hall was posthumously dedicated to him.

Also, both as a parish church dedicated to St. Werenfridus.

He was baptised in Temple-Douglas, in the County Donegal parish of Conwal ( mid-way between Gartan and Letterkenny ), by his teacher and foster-uncle Saint Crunathan.

Henry IV restored the charter granted to Gibraltar in 1310 and took two additional measures: the lands previously belonging to Algeciras ( destroyed in 1369 ) were granted to Gibraltar ; and the status of collegiate church was solicited from the pope Pius II and granted to the parish church of Saint Mary the Crowned (), now the Cathedral of St. Mary the Crowned, on the site of the old main Moorish Mosque.

Saint Herman's Orthodox Theological Seminary in Kodiak, Alaska is named in his honor, as are numerous parish churches throughout the world.

The religious part of a parish name is sometimes written or pronounced in the possessive: Saint George's Gingerland.

Of the nineteen Gorcum martyrs, eleven were Franciscan priests ; Peter Ascanius and Cornelius Vican, laymen ; one Dominican, two Premonstratensian monks, a regular canon of Saint Augustine, and four secular parish priests.

The airport is located in the south of the parish of Saint Peter Basseterre on the north-eastern periphery of the city of Basseterre.

There is a statue to him outside Saint Mary's parish church, where he was based.

The city lies within the parish of Saint George Basseterre and the southern part of the parish of Saint Peter Basseterre.

While there, Father Sarto expanded his knowledge of theology, studying both Saint Thomas Aquinas and canon law, while carrying out most of the functions of the parish pastor, who was quite ill.

The old mission church remains in use as a chapel of Saint Joseph Catholic Church, a parish of the Diocese of Oakland.

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.

* Nain, Jamaica, a village in the parish of Saint Elizabeth