Brooklyn 's bishop called on parishes to ban gay-marriage supporters from speaking at events .

布鲁克林的主教号召教区禁止同性婚姻的支持者在教会活动中发言。

The neighboring parishes can come and take their pick of relics or ecclesiastical equipment .

周边的教区可以来这里挑选他们需要的圣物或者是宗教设备。

As a result , some parishes are cutting back on masses on christmas day .

结果，有些教区就把圣诞弥撒给提前了。

A handful of big evangelically-minded parishes now exercise huge influence , far beyond their immediate patch .

现在有很多大型福音主义教区表现出巨大的影响力，远超出他们的地理限制。

Since 1988 , the number of orthodox parishes has nearly trebled to 19000 ; the number of seminaries has increased ninefold to 26 ; the number of monasteries has increased 25-fold to nearly 500 .

自从1988年，东正教教区的数量差不多三倍成长到19000个；神学院的数量成九倍增长到26个；修道院数量25倍增长接近500个。