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Research draft

parish

vr.tr.parish · PHY.PLC

Let an agent handle parishes by church or civil type, location, administration, records and contacts, attributing religious roles to the churches concerned.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent handle parishes by church or civil type, location, administration, records and contacts, attributing religious roles to the churches concerned.

A local unit of church organisation served by a priest or minister, such as Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican and Lutheran parishes, and in several countries also a civil administrative division, such as civil parishes in England, freguesias in Portugal, parishes of Jersey and parishes in Louisiana.

What it is for: Religious life, local administration and genealogy.

It can be identify the parish for an address; distinguish church and civil parishes; find parish registers for genealogy; contact a parish office or council.

Distinguishing features

Local unit

Church or civil

Has boundaries

Keeps records

What it looks like

A territory with a church and community, or an administrative area with a council.

How it is recognised

Parish churches and boundaries

Parish councils and registers

A diocese is a larger church unit

Related models

is a kind of - category

religious administrative entity

is part of - larger unit

diocese

keeps - records

parish register

is related to - civil body

council

In practice

Families and kinds

Catholic and Orthodox parishes

Anglican and Lutheran parishes

civil parishes

freguesias and similar municipal subdivisions

personal parishes

Standards and regulation

Canon law and church regulations

Local government law for civil parishes

Access rules for parish records

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing church and civil parishes

Outdated boundaries after mergers

Privacy of recent records

Also called

territorial parishCatholic parishfreguesiagroup of parishesparish of SwedenGreek catholic parishOrthodox parishPolish Catholic MissionDiaconiaparish of the Belarusian Greek Catholic Churchpievechapelrysecteur pastoralMilitary parishsockenparish of the Church of SwedenQuoad sacra parishStrip parishpersonal parishparroquia of Galiciaparishes in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Trevisonational parishpastorate of the Church of SwedenPolish Catholic Mission in Franceparish of Norwaynon-territorial parisheschurch library districtHistorical parish of the Church of SwedenSwedish church abroad

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.parish

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Type Which parish.

Types differ.

Kind

Church or civil.

Kind

Parish type.

  1. Is a church parish or a civil parish meant? boundary
  2. Which church or authority does it belong to? provenance

Locate

Address lookup.

Locate

Location.

  1. Which parish covers this address? provenance
  2. Have boundaries changed recently? provenance
Church Religious life.

Roles are attributed.

Services

Worship and sacraments.

Services

Services.

  1. When are services held, according to the parish? provenance
  2. How can baptisms, weddings or funerals be arranged? action

Office

Contacts.

Office

Parish office.

  1. How can the parish office or priest be contacted? provenance
  2. Which diocese oversees it? provenance
Civil Local government.

Civil parishes govern locally.

Council

Parish council.

Council

Parish council.

  1. What does the parish or freguesia council do, and when does it meet? provenance
  2. How can residents take part? action

Local services

Responsibilities.

Local services

Local services.

  1. Which local services does the civil parish provide? provenance
  2. Which are provided by higher tiers? provenance
Records Genealogy.

Registers support research.

Registers

Parish registers.

Registers

Parish registers.

  1. Where are the parish registers for this parish held, and for which years? provenance
  2. Are they digitised? provenance

Privacy

Recent records.

Privacy

Privacy.

  1. Are recent records restricted for privacy? provenance
  2. Who can grant access? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should church and civil parishes be separate entries?
  • How should parish boundaries be linked?
  • How should registers be linked?
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