godfamily

Noun

 * 1) A group of people who are closely related to one another by godparent/godchild ties (including godsiblings, godaunts, etc).
 * 2) * 1996, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History Christopher Given-Wilson, An Illustrated History of Late Medieval England, Manchester University Press (ISBN 9780719041525), page 119:
 * Apart from family, there was godfamily, something which was taken seriously