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See: board, conference, meeting CONSISTORY, ecclesiastical law. An assembly of cardinals convoked by the
pope. The consistory is public or secret. It is public, when the pope
receives princes or gives audience to ambassadors; secret, when he fills
vacant sees, proceeds to the canonization of saints, or judges and settles
certain contestations submitted to him.
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