consistories

Over the years, Pope Benedict has used consistories to confront cardinals with what he considers the biggest challenges facing the church, such as efforts to bring splinter Catholic groups back into the Catholic fold.

Pope to Discuss Sex Abuse at Meeting With Cardinals Stacy Meichtry 2010

In future consistories, Pope Benedict and his successors are likely to come under more pressure to ignore the rules as the demographics of the church continue to shift.

Cardinals Stacy Meichtry 2010

First, the Jewish religion, like the Protestant religion, would be organized into a series of administrative bodies called “consistories.”

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

The consistories would train and appoint rabbis and organize how they would be paid.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

The consistories were also charged with teaching Jews patriotism and useful trades.

Emancipation Michael Goldfarb 2009

He -- at so many times he had consistories, and he chose men to represent all different nations.

CNN Transcript Apr 2, 2005 2005

Inform yourself of their church government: whether it resides in the sovereign, or in consistories and synods.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

He has held 9 consistories in which he created 231 + 1 in pectore cardinals .

Numbers cannot do justice... 2005

It was a constant practice with them, in their midnight consistories, to swallow such plentiful draughts of inspiration, that their mysteries commonly ended like those of the Bacchanalian orgia; and they were seldom capable of maintaining that solemnity of decorum which, by the nature of their functions, most of them were obliged to profess.

The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle 2004

For the second and fifth days of the week, the judiciary consistories sat in the cities by the appointment of Ezra.

From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979