एक चर्च ट्रिब्यूनल या शासी निकाय

Noun:

पोप सभा, पुरोहित-सभा,

consistories's Usage Examples:

Instead of the appointments to the membership of the consistories being made by the bishops, they were made by the supreme civil authority, whatever that might be.

The Reformed Church has consistories in Dresden and Leipzig.

Beginning with Paris, some fifteen communities with their consistories were established in French towns between 1555 and 1560.

The bishops had consistorial courts; the patriarchs, chanceries and consistories (ib.).

Consistories and synods have till near the end of the 18th century.

Discipline over ministers and other office-bearers was exercised by administrative methods in the form of trials before consistories or synods.

The Jewish parishes, called synagogues, are grouped into departmental consistories (Paris, Bordeaux, Nancy, Marseilles, Bayonne, Lille, Vesoul, Besancon and three in Algeria).

Its consistories are grouped into two special synods, one at Paris and one at Montbliard (for the department of Doubs and Haute-Sane and the territory of Belfort, where the churches of this denomination are principally situated).

In the large towns there were consistories composed of all the ministers and of delegates from the various parishes.

Protestants were granted full civil rights and protection, and were permitted to hold their ecclesiastical assemblies - consistories, colloquies and synods, 1 Lindsay, Hist.

consistories's Meaning':

a church tribunal or governing body

Synonyms:

tribunal, judicature, court,

Antonyms:

refrain,