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parish
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Hiroshima, by John Hersey
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The effort of moving the piano the day before, a sleepless night, weeks of worry and unbalanced diet, the cares of his parish — all combined to make him feel hardly adequate to the new day's work.†
Chpt 1 *
FOR a few months in the spring and summer of 1956, his poor health declining still further, Father Takakura filled a temporary vacancy in a small parish in the Noborimachi district.†
Chpt 5
His parish consisted of four previously converted families, about ten worshippers in all.†
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(1) (parish)
a local church community

or in some places including Louisiana: a jurisdiction of government like a county
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)