The text traditionally called "Suevic Parishes List" has no parallel in Late Antique Western Europe. However, it still remains underexploited by historians of the Church and Society of Northwest Iberia. This paper aims to expand its understanding by means of other sources of the same period (archeology, saint dedications, place names and coins). This approach allow us to achieve a deeper understanding of the creation of the first "parishes" in Galicia in the 6th-7th centuries, and a richer knowledge of the geographical and social-historical context, in which this first process of rural ecclesiastical organization must be interpreted.