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The church drew a line around your neighborhood and called it destiny.
means A local district with its own church, originally the basic unit of religious and civic life in a community.
from From Old French 'paroisse', from Late Latin 'parochia', itself a garbling of Greek 'paroikia' meaning 'sojourning' or 'dwelling beside' — built from 'para' (beside) and 'oikos' (house, dwelling). So a parish was literally a 'neighborhood,' a cluster of houses gathered round a center, which the early Church quietly repurposed into its own administrative map of souls.
- louisiana exception
- Only US state using parishes instead of counties
- why louisiana
- French Catholic settlers organized government around church boundaries
- england today
- Still the smallest unit of local government there
- count
- England has over 10,000 civil parishes still functioning