Editing Parish (section)

==Methodist Church==
In the [[United Methodist Church]] congregations are called parishes, though they are more often simply called congregations and have no geographic boundaries. A prominent example of this usage comes in ''The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church'', in which the committee of every local congregation that handles staff support is referred to as the committee on Pastor-Parish Relations.  This committee gives recommendations to the bishop on behalf of the parish/congregation since it is the United Methodist Bishop of the [[Episcopal area (United Methodist Church)|episcopal area]] who appoints a pastor to each congregation. The same is true in the [[African Methodist Episcopal Church]] and the [[Christian Methodist Episcopal Church]].

In New Zealand, a local grouping of Methodist churches that share one or more [[minister of religion|ministers]] (which in the United Kingdom would be called a [[Methodist Circuit|circuit]]) is referred to as a parish.