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==Etymology and use==
First attested in English in the late 13th&nbsp;century, the word ''parish'' comes from the [[Old French]] {{Lang|fro|paroisse}}, in turn from {{langx|la|paroecia}},<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dparoecia paroecia], Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, ''A Latin Dictionary'', on Perseus</ref> the [[Romanization of Greek|Romanisation]] of the {{langx|grc|παροικία|paroikia}}, "sojourning in a foreign land",<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dparoiki%2Fa παροικία], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> itself from {{lang|el|πάροικος}} (''paroikos''), "dwelling beside, stranger, sojourner",<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpa%2Froikos πάροικος], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> which is a compound of {{lang|el|παρά}} (''pará''), "beside, by, near"<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dpara%2F παρά], Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus</ref> and {{lang|el|οἶκος}} (''oîkos''), "house".<ref>[https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Doi%29%3Dkos1 οἶκος] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629164225/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Doi%29%3Dkos1 |date=June 29, 2011 }}, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, ''A Greek-English Lexicon'', on Perseus.</ref>

As an ancient concept, the term "parish" occurs in the long-established Christian denominations: [[Catholic Church|Catholic]], [[Anglican Communion]], the [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], and [[Lutheranism|Lutheran]] churches, and in some [[Methodist]], [[Congregationalist]] and [[Presbyterianism|Presbyterian]] administrations.

The eighth Archbishop of Canterbury [[Theodore of Tarsus]] (c. 602–690) appended the parish structure to the [[Anglo-Saxons#Culture|Anglo-Saxon township]] unit, where it existed, and where [[minster (church)|minsters]] catered to the surrounding district.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Wells|first1=Samuel|title=What Anglicans Believe. An Introduction|date=2011|publisher=Canterbury Press|location=Norwich|isbn=978-1-84825-114-4|page=93|edition=First}}</ref>