:" 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.

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.

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

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 village, which has its own parish council, has a population of 5, 093 and the parish has an acreage of as of 1961.

The parish council, which has 15 members who are elected for four years, is responsible for local issues, including setting an annual precept ( local rate ) to cover the council ’ s operating costs and producing annual accounts for public scrutiny.

The parish has a population of 5, 093, with a mean age of 43 years.

While Don Quixote is unconscious in his bed, his niece, the housekeeper, the parish curate, and the local barber secretly burn most of the books of chivalry, and seal up his library pretending that a magician has carried it off.

* Canon 21, the famous " Omnis utriusque sexus ", which commands every Christian who has reached the years of discretion to confess all his, or her, sins at least once a year to his, or her, own ( i. e. parish ) priest.

Parts of the parish of St Clement in the south were previously below sea-level but the construction of a seawall and infilling of low land has probably left only a few pockets of land below mean sea level.

The parish church of St. Mary the Virgin has Norman origins, and features a font from around 1200.

It currently has six elected councillors in Cornwall Council and 27 town and parish councillors.

Folk memory in Wales had always held him in high regard and almost every parish has some landmark or story about Owain.

More recently, the parish has been home to many of Lafayette's growing Mexican-American population.

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

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

* The official Roman Catholic decree " Tametsi " stipulates that for a marriage to be valid, consent ( the essence of marriage ) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.

The borough of Wernigerode is divided into the town itself, including the villages of Hasserode and Nöschenrode incorporated before 1994 and five villages with their own parish councils that were integrated in 1994: Benzingerode, Minsleben, Reddeber, Schierke and Silstedt.

The Corporation Act 1661 required municipal officeholders to swear allegiance ; the Act of Uniformity 1662 made the use of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer compulsory ; the Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except under the auspices of the Church of England ; and the Five Mile Act 1665 prohibited clergymen from coming within five miles ( 8 km ) of a parish from which they had been banished.

In 1930 the landward area of the county ( the part outside of burgh boundaries ) was divided into five districts, replacing the parish councils established in 1894:

When he was aged five or six, his family moved to a plantation in St. George, a parish on Winyah Bay.

The border with Sabine Parish, Louisiana is rather unusual since the county and the parish both share the same name, one of only five such instances in the United States.

At the end of the 18th century, above of land in the parish of Battersea were occupied by some 20 market gardeners, who rented from five to near each.

The 2000 census counted 44, 915 people in the parish who are at least five years old of whom 31, 229 ( 69. 5 %) speak only English at home, 27. 44 % reported speaking French ( Colonial French also known as Plantation Society French ) or Cajun French at home, while 1. 52 % speak Louisiana Creole French.

For the purposes of local government, Wymondham civil parish falls within the district of South Norfolk returning five district councillors, one for each ward.

Lafayette serves as the retail hub of the five parish Acadiana area.

The parish police jury appointed five commissioners to govern the town.

Haworth village is part of the parish of Haworth, Cross Roads and Stanbury, which in turn is part of the Bradford Metropolitan District Council, one of the five metropolitan boroughs of West Yorkshire.

Tories ( Loyalists ) raided the town several times during the American Revolution, at one point taking 26 men in the parish prisoner for five months, including the Rev.

In 1988 a parish council was formed, one of five in Kirklees, the others being :- Denby Dale, Meltham, Kirkburton and Holme Valley.

Haxby is a town and civil parish in the unitary authority of City of York, on the River Foss, five miles ( 8 km ) north of York and south of Strensall, in North Yorkshire, England.

At Broadwindsor, early in 1641, Thomas Fuller, his curate Henry Sanders, the churchwardens, and five others certified that their parish, represented by 242 adult males, had taken the Protestation ordered by the speaker of the Long Parliament.

It forbade clergymen from living within five miles ( 8 km ) of a parish from which they had been expelled, unless they swore an oath never to resist the king, or attempt to alter the government of Church or State.

The legislation provides that the number of elected members of a parish council shall not be less than five.

In 1665, the total number of deaths in the parish rose to five and a half times their normal number, with 2, 111 deaths overall and 1, 427 attributed to plague.

Falmer is a small village and civil parish in the Lewes District of East Sussex, England, lying between Brighton and Lewes, approximately five miles ( 8 km ) north-east of the former.

The parish council has five seats available which were uncontested in the May 2007 election.

Sheffield Cathedral is one of five Grade I listed buildings in the city, along with Town Hall, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, and the parish churches at Ecclesfield and Bradfield.

Croft is a village and civil parish in Warrington, Cheshire, England, about five miles north of Warrington town centre.

This sound is very common in place names in Wales because it occurs in the word Llan, meaning " parish " or " church of Saint ...", for example, Llanelli, where the ll appears twice, or the invented place-name Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwyllllantysiliogogogoch, where the ll appears five times.

Two others are located in County Tyrone, one near Clogher and the other in the parish of Cappagh.

Music was much simplified ; and a radical distinction developed between, on the one hand, parish worship where only the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins might be sung ; and on the other hand, worship in churches with organs and surviving choral foundations, where the music of John Marbeck and others was developed into a rich choral tradition.

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.

The 1928 revised forms of Matrimony and Baptism were quite widely adopted, but those of other rites tended not to be ; the consequence, in practice, being very wide variation in liturgical practice from parish to parish, with very few churchmen adhering consistently to the strict observation of either the 1662 or the 1928 forms of worship.

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

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.

As in the other Eastern churches, married men may become priests, and parish priests administer the mystery of confirmation to newborn infants immediately after baptism, via the rite of chrismation ; the infants are then administered Holy Communion.

When the feast day of the patron saint of the parish church or monastery falls on a weekday of Great Lent, there is no Liturgy ( other than the Presanctified ), but fish is allowed at the meal.

Also in that year he and other young Welsh Liberals founded a monthly paper Udgorn Rhyddid ( Bugle of Freedom ) and won on appeal to the Divisional Court of Queen's Bench the Llanfrothen burial case ; this established the right of Nonconformists to be buried according to their own denominational rites in parish burial grounds, a right given by the Burial Act 1880 that had up to then been ignored by the Anglican clergy.

Later his tomb was transferred to San Salvatore in Lauro, a parish church on the other bank of the Tiber River.

Presbyteries are made up of the minister and an elder ' commissioned ' from each parish, as well as other clergy such as theological college professors, chaplains, and retired ministers.

Treknow is the largest of the other settlements in the parish, which include Trethevy, Trebarwith, Tregatta, Trenale and Trewarmett.

The Local Government Act 1972 abolished all existing local authorities outside London ( other than parish councils ) in England and Wales.

The abbey church, although legally a cathedral church, differs in certain particulars from most of the other cathedrals in England: it is also used as a parish church, of which the dean is rector.

He has the same powers, responsibilities and duties as the rector of any other parish.

In 1553 the Lady Chapel became a school, the Great Gatehouse a town jail, some other buildings passed to the Crown, and the Abbey Church was sold to the town for £ 400 in 1553 by King Edward VI to be the church of the parish.

Various properties at Sherborne were bought from the king by Sir John Horsey who then sold the abbey to the people of Sherborne, who bought the building to be their parish church ( as people of many other places did ), which it still is.

The only other Hanwell in Britain is a small parish in Oxfordshire on the boundary with Warwickshire.

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.

The parish continued west of Mayfair into Hyde Park and then south to include Belgravia and other areas.

The settlement to the east of the Lea was also known as Estratford referring to the location east of the other Stratford, Statford Hamme alluding to the location within the parish of West Ham, Abbei Stratford, referring to the presence of Stratford Langthorne Abbey and Stretford Langthorne.

The racial makeup of the parish was 66. 27 % White, 32. 03 % Black or African American, 0. 50 % Native American, 0. 16 % Asian, 0. 05 % Pacific Islander, 0. 13 % from other races, and 0. 86 % from two or more races.

The racial makeup of the parish was 48. 63 % White, 50. 51 % Black or African American, 0. 20 % Native American, 0. 17 % Asian, 0. 02 % Pacific Islander, 0. 03 % from other races, and 0. 44 % from two or more races.