in fact, a contrast is often drawn in this regard with the `` impersonal '' Roman Catholic parish.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

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.

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.

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

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

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

In Byzantine usage, an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose altar it is and under whose omophorion the priest at a local parish is serving.

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.

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.

In the parish of Kilmore, County Armagh, there is a place called Tamnaghvelton / Tamhnach Bhealtaine (' field of the Bealtaine festivities ').

Bodmin () is a civil parish and major town in Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

The extent of the civil parish corresponds fairly closely to that of the town so is mostly urban in character.

It is bordered to the east by Cardinham parish, to the southeast by Lanhydrock parish, to the southwest and west by Lanivet parish, and to the north by Helland parish.

Langdon ( 1896 ) records six crosses in the parish of which the finest is at Carminow.

It is situated in Altarnun civil parish between Launceston and Bodmin.

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.

Farmland in St Buryan parish looking south towards the English channel | sea

* The city of Franklin, the parish seat of St. Mary Parish in south Louisiana

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

Stratford-upon-Avon (, known locally as Stratford ) is a market town and civil parish in south Warwickshire, England.

Falmouth () is a town, civil parish and port on the River Fal on the south coast of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

* St. Michael's parish church, Letcombe Bassett, Berkshire ( now Oxfordshire ): nave and south aisle, 1861

* Ottery St. Mary parish church, Devon: south transept refurbishment and marble font

The width of the parish tapered in the south to form a point at Crystal Palace.

Its historical borders are Kingsland Road and Kingsland High Street in the west, London Fields in the east, Downs Park Road in the north and the Shoreditch parish boundary in the south.

The inadequacy of one church to serve a growing population is indicated by the rebuilding of St Mary's church in 1842 to cater for the increased number of church goers and then by the building in 1877 of St Mark's as an additional church serving the south of the parish.

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

Stepney formed a large ancient parish in the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex ; bounded by Bromley and West Ham to the east, the River Thames to the south, Shoreditch and Hackney to the north and the City of London and the Liberties of the Tower of London to the west.

The building of the docks intensified land use and caused the last marshy areas in the south of the parish to be drained for housing and industry.

To the south of the parish, employment was in the docks and related industries – such as chandlery and rope making.

The parish is about north of Baton Rouge, Louisiana and about south of Natchez, Mississippi.

largest population living in the south end of the parish, the people of Pioneer felt

Most of the parish south of Ponchatoula consists of Holocene coastal swamp and marsh — gray-to-black clays of high organic content and thick peat beds underlying freshwater marsh and swamp.

Lafourche Parish () is a parish located in the south of the U. S. state of Louisiana.

Iberville Parish () is a parish located south of Baton Rouge in the U. S. state of Louisiana.

The civil parish extends south as far as Kennulph's Drain.

This is the boundary with a small section of Newborough, which encompasses the parish adjacent south, that of Borough Fen.

From the area south of Little Postland, it borders the large parish of Whaplode ( Whaplode Drove ).

Horning parish lies on the northern bank of the River Bure south of the River Thurne and is located in the The Broads National Park.

The broad is situated to the south and east of the village of Barton Turf, and is within the parish of Barton Turf.