A married vicar is likely to regard his vocation as a job - a tough and ill-paid one, to be sure - but a priest is seen as a pillar of the community, answerable only to his parishioners and his God, rather than to a wife and children. Simon Hoggart
8. We pray that priests or vicars that be not able to preach and set forth the word of God to his parishioners may be thereby put from his benefice, and the parishioners there to choose another or else patron or lord of the town. Source: Internet
All parishioners will remain in their cars at all times. Source: Internet
And when vandals burned an African American church down, Dad made sure its parishioners got the funds to rebuild. Source: Internet
An Irish priest, refusing to let the coronavirus lockdown keep him from his parishioners, came up with an innovative way to spread his Holy Thursday blessing - aboard a vintage 'popemobile.' Source: Internet
Fox in Nickalls, p.66 He campaigned against the paying of tithes, which funded the established church and often went into the pockets of absentee landlords or religious colleges far away from the paying parishioners. Source: Internet