What is a parish?
Parish
A parish is the local congregation of the Anglican or Catholic church, with a defined area, a parish priest, and its own registers of baptism, confirmation, marriage and burial.
Parishes are grouped into deaneries and deaneries into dioceses. A Catholic parish is run day to day with a parish pastoral council and often divided into outstations and small Christian communities; an Anglican parish is governed locally by its vestry and churchwardens.
The Catholic Church in Ghana has 798 parishes served by 7,413 catechists.
Used by: Anglican and Catholic churches.
