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Consistory
Consistory meaning
A 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.
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Cardinal Ladaria was made a cardinal in a June 2018 consistory.
The following article is part one of four reports by Br Mark O’Connor FMS, Vicar for Communications, as he reported from the sidelines of the Consistory of Cardinals in August.
The King of Spain chose Fra Cagliares and after the usual procedure, Pope Paul V, during a Secret Consistory of the 18 May 1615 appointed Fra Cagliares to the Maltese See.
During his pontificate, however, Pope Francis has only convened a consistory three times to discuss issues at hand.
The ceremony to install the new appointees, known as a consistory, will be held on Dec. 8, the 87-year-old pope said during his weekly noon-time prayer with pilgrims and tourists in St. Peter's Square.
The new cardinals will be installed at a ceremony known as a consistory on Dec. 8, a feast day on the Catholic calendar.
All these members in the consistory have the right to vote.
A process (judicial investigation) against the memory of Boniface was held by an ecclesiastical consistory at Groseau, near Avignon, which held preliminary examinations in August and September 1310.
At Rome, this definition was rejected in the consistory of 27 May, and Luther declared that he could accept it only provided the opposers would admit that hitherto they had taught differently from what was meant in the present instance.
Both Perrin's wife and father-in-law had previous conflicts with the Consistory.
But they were discovered and the pope raced back to Rome where he immediately held a consistory and demanded to know who the new pope was.
Calvin established an eldership together with a " consistory ", where pastors and the elders established matters of religious discipline for the Genevan population.
Cardinalate Pope Paul VI created Luciani the Cardinal-Priest of San Marco in the consistory on 5 March 1973.
Driven to extremes, Clement XIII consented to call a consistory to consider the step, but on the very eve of the day set for its meeting he died, not without suspicion of poison, of which, however, there appears to be no conclusive evidence.
Finally, on 22 January 1555, the council announced the decision of the Swiss churches: the original Ordonnances were to be kept and the Consistory was to regain its official powers.
He elevated two cardinals to the cardinalate in the only papal consistory of his cardinalate on 18 December 1591.
He had always insisted that the Consistory retain the power of excommunication, despite the council's past decision to take it away.
He presided over the Consistory which included procurators of each of the nations and the faculty deans, as well as over the University Assembly, in which all university teachers participated.
He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York,According to one source, he may have been Registrar of the Exchequer Court of the Archbishop.sfn and his wife, Edith.
In 1846 the Central Consistory moved to Saint-Esprit which was integrated with Bayonne in 1857.