page_title: Parish
section_title: Territorial structure
hierarchical_section_title: Parish / Territorial structure
caption_attribution_description: English: Ensemble Berndorf, Lower Austria, with St. Margarete parish church, famous school buildings with classrooms in different styles (left and right of the church), behind the church the parish priests house (left) and former Konsumanstalt (right side), in front the former Casino of Krupp, today a restaurant, and left the former residential house for the school directors. Mausoleum of the Krupp family at the bottom border. (whole scenery seen from Guglzipf, Jubiläumswarte) Deutsch: Ensemble Berndorf, mit Margaretenkirche, den Berndorfer Schulen mit den Stilklassen (links und rechts der Kirche), hinter der Kirche Pfarrhof (links) und ehem. Konsumanstalt (rechts), vor der Kirche rechts das Krupp-Kasino, heute Gasthaus, und links das ehemalige Wohnhaus der Schuldirektoren. Mausoleum der Familie Krupp am unteren Rand sichtbar. (von der Jubiläumswarte aus gesehen) &#160; This media shows the protected monument with the number 129008 in Austria. (Commons, de, Wikidata)
context_page_description: A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or more curates, and who operates from a parish church. Historically, a parish often covered the same geographical area as a manor. Its association with the parish church remains paramount.
  By extension the term parish refers not only to the territorial entity but to the people of its community or congregation as well as to church property within it. In England this church property was technically in ownership of the parish priest ex-officio, vested in him on his institution to that parish.
context_section_description: Broadly speaking, the parish is the standard unit in episcopal polity of church administration, although parts of a parish may be subdivided as a chapelry, with a chapel of ease or filial church serving as the local place of worship in cases of difficulty to access the main parish church.
  In the wider picture of ecclesiastical polity, a parish comprises a division of a diocese or see. Parishes within a diocese may be grouped into a deanery or vicariate forane (or simply vicariate), overseen by a dean or vicar forane, or in some cases by an archpriest. Some churches of the Anglican Communion have deaneries as units of an archdeaconry.
caption: St Margarete Parish Church, Berndorf, Austria
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