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===Outstations===
{{Other uses|Outstation (disambiguation){{!}}Outstation}}
{{distinguish|Mission station}}
An outstation is a newly created congregation, a term usually used where the church is [[evangelical]], or a [[Christian mission|mission]] and particularly in African countries,<ref name=cameroon/><ref name=tree/> but also historically in Australia.<ref>{{cite web | title=History | website= St Kevin's Parish, Eastwood |url=https://www.stkevinseastwood.org.au/history/ | language=pl | access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref> They exist mostly within the [[Roman Catholic|Catholic]] and [[Church of England|Anglican]] parishes.<ref name=cameroon/><ref name=tree>{{cite web | title=The Outstation That Wanted to be a Real Parish| website=Leaves from the Tree | date=12 September 2011 | url=https://catholicmissionquest.wordpress.com/2011/09/12/the-outstation-that-wanted-to-be-a-real-parish/|first=Brandon|last=Zingsheim | access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref><ref name=southwark>{{cite web | title=Southwark Cathedral and the Anglican Church in Zimbabwe | website=[[Southwark Cathedral]] | date=1 August 1952 | url=https://cathedral.southwark.anglican.org/about-us/cathedral-community-and-congregation/southwark-cathedral-and-the-anglican-church-in-zimbabwe/ | access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Brief History of St. Peter Society| website=St. Michael Catholic Church | date=11 November 2018 | url=http://www.stmichaelcatholicchurchketu.org/st_peter.html | access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Little by Little We Build our Church | website=Missionary Community of Saint Paul the Apostle | date=4 August 2019 | url=https://mcspa.org/little-by-little-we-build-our-church/ | access-date=18 August 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Ball, Jeremy. |title=The 'Three Crosses' of Mission Work: Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM) in Angola, 1880-1930|journal=Journal of Religion in Africa|volume=40|issue=3|year=2010|pages=331–357|doi=10.1163/157006610X532202|jstor=25801381}}</ref>

The Anglican Diocese of Cameroon describes their outstations as the result of [[outreach]] work "initiated, sponsored and supervised by the mother parishes". Once there is a big enough group of worshippers in the same place, the outstation is named by the bishop of the diocese. They are run by "[[catechist]]s/evangelists" or lay readers, and supervised by the creator parish or [[archdeaconry]].<ref name=cameroon>{{cite web | title=Diocese | website=Anglican Church Of Cameroon | date=22 August 2017 | url=http://anglicandioceseofcameroon.org/index.php/diocese | access-date=18 August 2020 | archive-date=16 June 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616204547/http://anglicandioceseofcameroon.org/index.php/diocese | url-status=dead }}</ref>

Outstations are not self-supporting, and in poor areas often consist of a very simple structure. The parish priest visits as often as possible. If and when the community has grown enough, the outstation may become a parish and have a parish priest assigned to it.<ref name=tree/>