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 A parish is a certain community of Christ's faithful stably established
within a particular Church, whose pastoral care, under the authority
of the diocesan Bishop, is entrusted to a parish priest as its proper
pastor. (Canon 515)
The parish priest is the proper pastor of the parish entrusted to
him. He exercise the pastoral care of the community entrusted to
him under the authority of the diocesan Bishop, whose ministry of
Christ he is called to share, so that for this community he may carry
out the offices of teaching, sanctifying and ruling with the co-operation
of other priests or deacons and with the assistance of lay members
of Christ's faithful, in accordance with the law. (Canon 519)
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