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.

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

In 1696 he ran a tile and brick factory in what is now Tilbury, Essex and living in the parish of Chadwell St Mary.

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.

Old Catholic parish church in Gablonz an der Neiße, Austria-Hungary ( now Jablonec nad Nisou, Czech Republic ).

The parish was in the care of the Order of Friars Minor ( Franciscan Fathers ) of the Cincinnati Province between 1875 and 1991 and now is staffed by diocesan priests.

Between 1500 and 1503 he carved an altar, now lost, for the parish church of Schwaz, Tyrol of the " Assumption of Mary ".

Llywelyn's stone coffin is now in Llanrwst parish church.

This abbey was later moved to Maenan, becoming the Maenan Abbey, near Llanrwst, and Llywelyn's stone coffin can now be seen in Llanrwst parish church.

On 9 April he fell ill and died in the Uusikirkko ( now Polyane ) village, part of the Kyrönniemi parish on the Karelian Isthmus.

It served as the parish church till the 19th century, and now forms the vestibule of a new church.

* Robert the Bruce was buried, in 1329, in the choir, now the site of the present parish church.

The chapel now functions as a chapel of Our Lady of Solitude, a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey.

Skirbeck (), is now considered part of Boston, but the name remains, as a church parish and an electoral ward.

The Salvation Army has meeting rooms in the town, whilst the local Methodists, who previously worshipped in their own Chapel in Paul Street ( built in 1810 ; it is now a community centre ), have an agreement to share the parish church with the Anglican congregation.

He was pastor of the parish Schaesberg now part of Landgraaf.

The living was endowed as a rectory when the parish was created from Madeley in 1847 and is now a united with Coalbrookdale and Little Wenlock, in the Diocese of Hereford.

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

* St. Mary's parish, Lower Heyford, Oxfordshire: remodelling of Old Rectory, 1867 ( now Tall Chimneys )

* Grade, a former parish in Cornwall, now part of Grade-Ruan

Entering St. Peter's parish in Athlone in June, 1837, he wrote ' I have now entered upon a region totally different from longford, and am very much pleased with the intelligence of the people '.

Other KC ministers Lewis interviewed included Burris Jenkins, Earl Blackman, I. M. Hargett, Bert Fiske, and Robert Nelson Horatio Spencer ( 1877-1961 ), who was Rector of a large Episcopal parish, Grace and Holy Trinity Church, which is now the Cathedral of the Episcopal Diocese of West Missouri.

It has been a Saxon cathedral ( 705 – 1075 ), a Benedictine abbey ( 998 – 1539 ), and, now, a parish church.

Historically a rural Essex parish, it gained Urban District status in 1894, and between 1938 and 1965 formed the core of the Municipal Borough of Chingford, Chingford now forms part of the north-east London Borough of Waltham Forest.

Harold Wood formed a ward in the ancient parish of Hornchurch, although the area now around the station was in the North End ward.