Definition of "parish church" []

• A church which acts as the religious centre of a parish; the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches. (noun)

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• "Though now a mission church, St. Alphonsus's continued to be a parish church for the"
• "The Reichenau school of painting is seen at its best even today in the single extant work of the tenth century = = the eight pictures on the upper part of the walls of the little Roman basilican parish church (St. Georgskirche) at Oberzell - and in the paintings on the walls of the church of St. Peter at Niederzell, which belong to the first half of the eleventh century, and were discovered by"
• "Bishop Egino of Verona resided in Reichenau, and built (799) the parish church of St. Peter at Niederzell, a small Roman basilica with two towers, whither he retired to lead the life of a hermit, dying in 802."