Definitions for "Consistory"
Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
an important event because it broadens the electorate, which has the singular responsibility of electing the next leader of the Chruch," US ambassador to the Holy See James Nicholson said
Keywords:  pertaining, nature
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.
a somewhat comparable body of a Jewish community in an area, e