- Church area - Church district - Congregation - Subdivision of a diocese - That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one
parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein. - The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with
its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc. - An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by
territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite
under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also,
loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- Church area - A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments
and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship
or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary. - A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage
parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry. - A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually
by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
- Church area - Part of a church containing altar, sanctuary and choir - That part of a church, reserved for the use of the
clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed. - All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the
line of the transept farthest from the main front.
- Bishop's district - Bishop’s district - Church area - Church district - Di, ring church, then write down directions to bishop’s district - The circuit or extent of a bishop's jurisdiction; the
district in which a bishop exercises his ecclesiastical authority.