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n. Roman Catholic Church An assembly of cardinals presided over by the pope for the solemn promulgation of papal acts, such as the canonization of a saint.

n. A governing body of a local congregation in certain Reformed churches.

n. A court appointed to regulate ecclesiastical affairs in Lutheran state churches.

n. An Anglican diocesan court presided over by a bishop's chancellor or commissary.

n. The meeting of a consistory.

n. A council; a tribunal.

n. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

n. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

n. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.

n. A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.

n. A civil court of justice.

n. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.

n. The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.

n. An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.

n. A church tribunal or governing body.

n. A civil court of justice.

adj. Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.

n. A place of meeting; especially, a council-house or place of justice, or the assembly which convenes in it; under the Roman emperors, a privy council.

n. Hence An ecclesiastical or spiritual court, or the place where such a court is held.

n. In the Reformed (Dutch) Ch., the lowest ecclesiastical court, having charge of the government of the local church, and corresponding to the session of the Presbyterian Church. In the Reformed (French) Ch., a higher court, corresponding to a presbytery.

n. In the Roman Catholic Church, an ecclesiastical senate, consisting of the whole body of cardinals, which deliberates upon the affairs of the church.

n. In the Lutheran state churches, a board of clerical officers, either national or provincial, usually appointed by the sovereign, charged with various matters of ecclesiastical administration.

Belonging to or of the nature of a consistory.

n. a church tribunal or governing body

"And then, if that were not enough, the pope has called a consistory, which is a meeting of all the cardinals, cardinals being, if you want, the ministers or the number one people in the Catholic Church below the pope, of course."

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