Other forms: parsons
A parson is a rural Protestant minister of an earlier age. The village parson, the parson's wife, a country parson.
It survives chiefly in American usage and in historical fiction, and the parson's nose is the fatty piece at the tail end of a cooked bird. The word is the same as person, since the parson was the legal person representing the church.
1nounparsonA rural Protestant minister of an earlier age, holding the living of his church, chiefly in American usage.
“The village parson rode his bicycle from farm to farm to visit the sick.”
parson is a minister.
Medieval Latin persona means both a person and a parson, since the parson legally represented the church.
Latin
persona — person
Medieval Latin
persona — parson, person
Old French
persone — parson, person
Middle English
persoun
English, today
parson
From Middle English persoun, from Anglo-Norman -, Old French persone (“parson, person”), from Medieval Latin persona (“parson, person”), from Latin persona (“person”). a doublet of person and persona.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA