consistory

Etymology
, from (🇨🇬), and. Meaning "Church council" is from early 14th century.

Noun

 * 1) A solemn assembly or council.
 * 2) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
 * 3) * 1860-1876,, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury
 * In 1551 we find Bertholier excommunicated by the consistory because he would not allow that he had done wrong in asserting that he was as good a man as Calvin
 * 1) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
 * 2) A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
 * 3)  A civil court of justice.
 * 1) A church tribunal or governing body, especially of elders in a Reformed church.
 * 2)  A civil court of justice.