All 4 Uses of "parish" in "I Heard the Owl Call My Name"

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I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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I shall send him to my hardest parish.†
Chpt 1.1
Don't be sorry for yourself because you are going to so remote a parish.†
Chpt 1.1
On the patrol to the other villages, which somehow he must bind together into a parish, hour passed hour and neither he nor Jim spoke a word.
Chpt 1.5 *

parish = a local church community
"We will show you our big parish," and he knew he would never see it and that she knew it also.†
Chpt 3.13

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(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)