Parochialism

A parish ( gr πάροχος párochos " darreichend ", " factor ") is the administrative district of a parish priest ( parochus ), ie a parish or parish. It is the lowest, church administration and pastoral district with its own pastor of a church ( denomination ), which is organized according to the Parochialprinzip. At the parish also affiliated churches may include. In the Protestant church several pastors can work in a parish, in the Catholic Church only one.

" Parochial " is that which belongs to parochus. The parochus is the one who shall minister the sacraments in the order of the bishop, or the name which the sacramental sacrifice, the Eucharist offereth. An alternative etymology is παροικία, " living a stranger in a place without civil rights ." In this sense the term occurs in the 1st Epistle of Peter (1 Peter 1.17 EU). There is talk that Christians live in this world as in a foreign land.

From the Greek, the term on the Latin parochia, paroecia has come to refer to a community ( parish, parish, parish ) on us. In English, the term is used as a parochial ( parish ..., community ... ). Since a church is to be regarded as limited range, it has in English the meaning of " limited " by " limited " and " narrow-minded " get " close-minded ".

Protestant Church: The term is variously understood as a rural area, which consists of several independent congregations who are looked after all of a clergyman ( priest ). A ( e) Clergy ( r) always represents a single entity in such cases, the individual parishes only together with the respective parish line. Several parishes make according to this understanding, a church district or district church (Protestant Germany ), a deanery (Roman Catholic ) or a Presbytery (Protestant ) ( Austria ).

According to Catholic canon law is the ( territorial ) parish or parish, the smallest territorial division.