Editing Parish (section)

==Catholic Church==
[[File:Opatow church 20070430 0936.jpg|thumb|Saint Martin's Collegiate Parish Church in [[Opatów]], [[Poland]]]]
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{{See also|Team of priests in solidum}}
In the Catholic Church, each parish normally has its own [[parish priest]] (in some countries called [[pastor]] or [[Provost (religion)|provost]]), who has responsibility and canonical authority over the parish.<ref>[http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P1T.HTM Code of Canon Law, canon 519]: "The parish priest is the proper clergyman in charge of the congregation of the parish entrusted to him. He exercises the pastoral care of the community entrusted to him under the authority of the [[diocesan bishop]], whose ministry of Christ he is called to share, so that for this community he may carry out the offices of teaching, sanctifying and ruling with the cooperation of other priests or deacons and with the assistance of lay members of Christ's faithful, in accordance with the law".</ref>

What in most English-speaking countries is termed the "parish priest" is referred to as the "pastor" in the [[United States]], where the term "parish priest" is used of any priest assigned to a parish even in a subordinate capacity. These are called "assistant priests",<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P1T.HTM| title = Code of Canon Law, canon 545 in the English translation by the Canon Law Society of Great Britain and Ireland, assisted by the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Canadian Canon Law Society}}</ref> "parochial vicars",<ref>{{cite web| url = https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG1104/__P1U.HTM| title = Code of Canon Law, canon 545 in the English translation by the Canon Law Society of America}}</ref> "[[curate#Catholic Church|curates]]", or, in the United States, "associate pastors" and "assistant pastors".

Each diocese (administrative region) is divided into parishes, each with their own central church called the [[parish church]], where religious services take place. Some larger parishes or parishes that have been combined under one parish priest may have two or more such churches, or the parish may be responsible for [[chapels]] (or [[chapels of ease]]) located at some distance from the [[mother church]] for the convenience of distant parishioners.<ref>Alston, G.C. (1908).[http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03574b.htm "Chapel"]. New Advent - Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved on 2013-09-02.</ref> In addition to a parish church, each parish may maintain auxiliary organizations and their facilities such as a [[rectory]], [[church hall|parish hall]], [[parochial school]], or [[convent]], frequently located on the same campus or adjacent to the church.

Normally, a parish comprises all Catholics living within its geographically defined area, but non-territorial parishes can also be established within a defined area on a personal basis for Catholics belonging to a particular [[particular Church|rite]], language, nationality, or community.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.intratext.com/IXT/ENG0017/_P1T.HTM| title = can. 518}}</ref> An example is that of personal parishes established in accordance with the 7 July 2007 ''[[motu proprio]]'' ''[[Summorum Pontificum]]'' for those attached to the pre-[[Vatican II]] liturgy.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/resources/summorum-pontificum.html| title = ''Summorum Pontificum'', article 10| access-date = 2012-12-17| archive-date = 2012-10-10| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121010043928/http://www.sanctamissa.org/en/resources/summorum-pontificum.html| url-status = dead}}</ref>