Official web pages Make your web site Getting more help About this web site Church words Staying in touch Site map Individual Anglican or Episcopal churches form parishes .
Parishes are a subdivision of dioceses .
Dioceses, which are the fundamental unit of church administration and governance, combine administratively to form provinces , though church members are rarely aware of administrative divisions between their diocese and their national church. Sometimes these provinces are autonomous and sometimes they combine to form national churches which are autonomous. There are many historical variations to this basic administrative scheme. Sometimes a diocese is divided into deaneries , or archdeaconries , and sometimes it is divided into archdeaconries which are in turn divided into deaneries. These divisions are not very important.