consistory
/kənˈsɪst(ə)ri
/noun (plural consistories)
1A church council or court, in particular:Also in 1555, the city council gave the consistory the right to excommunicate offenders....
- New attention was paid to Lutheran doctrine, and a revival of an awareness of Lutheran identity led to the building of new Lutheran congregations and to remarkable renewals, such as the appearance of women in consistories and ministries.
- He used the consistory to repay faithful servants, honor distinguished church men and fill vacancies in church territories which normally have a residential cardinal.
1.1(In the Roman Catholic Church) the council of cardinals, with or without the Pope.Later this month the church's 184 cardinals will gather at the Vatican for the sixth consistory of Pope John Paul II's pontificate....
- John Paul called nine consistories to create cardinals.
- He was made a cardinal in October 2003 that was the last consistory Pope John Paul called.
1.2 (also consistory court) (In the Church of England) a court presided over by a bishop, for the administration of ecclesiastical law in a diocese.Twenty-six dioceses each had a consistory court with defamation cases providing about one quarter of their business....
- The request was turned down by a consistory court, or church court, in 2002.
- At first glance, one might expect a study of the deposition books of the consistory court of the diocese of Canterbury and the marriage-related provisions of wills from five sample parishes to be essentially a work of consolidation.
1.3(In other Churches) a local administrative body.The minority Protestant Church was fully tolerated and given its own organizational structure of elected consistories in 1802....
- Collegialism is the name of a form of Church-government which attributes authority and power to a broader gathering over a local consistory.
- A local consistory cannot plead independence.
Derivatives
consistorial
/ adjective ...- Each diocese of the established church had a consistorial or diocesan court, and in Dublin, superior to these, was the Prerogative Court of Armagh.
- The final appointment to a royal pastorat will be made by the Government, and to a consistorial pastorat by the consistory.
- This took place at the local diocesan or consistorial courts in each Diocese.
Origin
Middle English (originally denoting a non-ecclesiastical council): from Anglo-Norman French consistorie, from late Latin consistorium, from consistere 'stand firm' (see consist).
Rhymes
- Sullivan, Sir Arthur
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- Sully, Thomas
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- sulphone
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