A consistory court is a type of ecclesiastical court, especially within the Church of England where they were originally established pursuant to a charter...

papal consistory, a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church Consistory court, a type of ecclesiastical court in the...

the Bishop of Norwich instituted disciplinary proceedings through a consistory court. Davidson's defence was severely compromised by his eccentric conduct...

Commissary Court and in other dioceses the consistory court. The Commissary Court is presided over by a commissary-general; a consistory Court is presided...

discipline, so that Protestant consistories can be regarded as successors not to the papal consistory in Rome but rather to the courts of Roman Catholic bishops...

commissioners have made their report. The Arches court was also the court of appeal from the consistory courts (of the bishops of the province) in all testamentary...

ISBN 978-1-78076-354-5. Hill, Mark (2003). "Consistory Court Judgment CH 79/03" (PDF). Chichester: Consistory Court of the Diocese of Chichester. Archived...

the consistory court of the diocese. The bishop no longer has the right to preside personally, as he formerly did. Appeals lie to the Arches Court (in...

four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York, and his wife, Edith. Guy's parents were regular communicants...

In 1636 the space beneath the south west tower became a bishop's consistory court. It was furnished as such at that time, and is now a unique survival...