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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.
     2. A court which was formerly held among protestants, in which the bishop presided, assisted by some of his clergy, also bears this name. It is now held in England, by the bishop's chancellor or commissary, and some other ecclesiastical officers, either in the cathedral, church, or other place in his diocese, for the determination of ecclesiastical cases arising in that diocese. Merl. Rep. h.t.; Burns' Dict. h.t.
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New attention was paid to Lutheran doctrine, and a revival of an awareness of Lutheran identity led to the building of new Lutheran congregations and to remarkable renewals, such as the appearance of women in consistories and ministries.
Dutch Lutheranism keeps its identity as it becomes part of the ... by Zwanepol, Klaas / Currents in Theology and Mission
In preceding consistories, the Holy Father has already surpassed the limit.
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During John Paul's pontificate, synods and consistories have been criticized for being tightly managed by the curia and consequently for reflecting the Vatican's agenda rather than the concerns, legitimate interests, and views of the church's bishops.
Vatican deliberations by VAN ALLEN, RODGER / Commonweal
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