consistories in English

noun
1
a church council or court, in particular.
Also in 1555, the city council gave the consistory the right to excommunicate offenders.

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1. He also prepared the allocutions that the Pope pronounced at consistories, as well as encyclicals and Apostolic letters addressed to bishops and the faithful.

2. The Scottish Rite Consistory The meetings of members of the Thirty-second Degree, or Sublime Princes of the Royal Secret in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, are called Consistories.

3. Appendant and concordant bodies of Freemasonry The fraternity of Freemasonry, also known as "Free and Accepted Masons," is organized by private groups of members variously known in English as lodges, chapters, councils, commanderies, consistories, etc., which can be collectively referred to …

4. These are divided into four classes: (I) the “Protonotarii Apostolici de numero participantium” (members of the college of prelates), who exercise their office in connection with the acts of consistories and canonizations, have a representative in the Congregation of the Propaganda, and, according to the reorganization of the Curia by the