But the parish properties belonged to the individual parishes.
Episcopalian Records are held by each individual parish.
The nation's 194 dioceses, which oversee the individual parishes, are financially and legally independent.
The Circuit Court is the division for criminal cases, holding sessions in the individual parishes.
The 1601 Act states that each individual parish was responsible for its 'own' poor.
Life Teen programs are typically established in individual parishes.
Happily it is not a crisis in many individual parishes.
As these corporations required a private Act, they were not suitable for smaller towns and individual parishes.
Each instance of appropriation, however, was established for an individual parish; and so there was wide local variation.
Before the 2008 schism, the diocese included 66 individual parishes and in 2004 had a total membership of 20,263.