- 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.
- 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.
- A body of elders in the early Christian church. - A judicatory consisting of all the ministers within a
certain district, and one layman, who is a ruling elder, from each
parish or church, commissioned to represent the church in conjunction
with the pastor. This body has a general jurisdiction over the churches
under its care, and next below the provincial synod in authority. - The Presbyterian religion of polity. - That part of the church reserved for the officiating
priest. - The residence of a priest or clergyman.
- Of or pertaining to Moravia, or to the United Brethren.
See Moravian, n. - One of a religious sect called the United Brethren (an
offshoot of the Hussites in Bohemia), which formed a separate church of
Moravia, a northern district of Austria, about the middle of the 15th
century. After being nearly extirpated by persecution, the society,
under the name of The Renewed Church of the United Brethren, was
reestablished in 1722-35 on the estates of Count Zinzendorf in Saxony.
Called also Herrnhuter.