In Protestant usage, a consistory designates certain ruling bodies in various churches. The meaning and the scope of functions varies strongly, also along...

the United Kingdom In Scandinavia, the Chapter of a cathedral Consistory (Protestantism), a distinct governmental and ecclesiastical office in Europe...

over other church leaders and over the laity Consistory (Protestantism) Consistory (Judaism) Papal consistory Canonical territory Ecclesiastical state (disambiguation)...

usually refers to evangelical Protestant churches, and therefore to a certain part of Protestantism rather than to Protestantism as a whole. The English word...

sanctification. Protestantism also introduced new ecclesiology. The general points of theological agreement by the different Protestant groups have been...

The Genevan Consistory (French: Consistoire de Genève) is a council of the Protestant Church of Geneva similar to a synod in other Reformed churches....

Protestantisme français (Virtual museum of the French Protestantism), retrieved on 29 April 2013. N. N., "Protestantism in Alsace", on: Musée virtuel du Protestantisme...

(Virtual museum of the French Protestantism), retrieved on 29 April 2013. Anthony Steinhoff, The gods of the city: Protestantism and religious culture in Strasbourg...

A Jewish consistory (or Consistoire in French; see conventional meanings: consistory in Wiktionary) was a body governing the Jewish congregations of a...

milleti ("taxibus drivers") or kadın milleti ("women folk"). Consistory (Protestantism) Culture of the Ottoman Empire History of the Ottoman Empire Devşirme...

deposition also from a church political point of view, arguing that only the consistory has the right to depose their minister, not a classis. The CRC disagreed...

1894. The consistory runs the consistorial secretariat. The consistory is responsible to the general assembly. The latter and the consistory together elect...

Protestantism was generally proscribed in France between 1685 (Edict of Fontainebleau) and 1787 (Edict of Versailles). During that period Roman Catholicism...

during the period of the Protestant Reformation, Paul III became the first to take active reform measures in response to Protestantism. Soon after his elevation...

Reformed Christianity or Continental Reformed Protestantism is a part of Reformed Christianity within Protestantism that traces its origin to continental Europe...

whether women are admitted as members of the congregation's consistory). The polity of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands is a hybrid of presbyterian...

online Drummond, Andrew Landale. German Protestantism since Luther (1951) Gordon, Frank J. "Protestantism and Socialism in the Weimar Republic." German...

where his father ultimately became prelate and counsellor to the supreme consistory (Evangelischer Oberkirchenrat) of the Evangelical State Church in Baden...

required Jews to adopt formal names. He also implemented a series of consistories, which served as an effective channel utilised by the French government...

established a Lutheran consistory of its own. In 1556 Pomerania-Wolgast had established its own consistory (Greifswald Consistory [de]). Its ambit comprised...

1881) Berlin, Züllichau (1944–1945) provincial synod (Provinzialsynode), consistory, 1829–1933: general superintendents for (1) Berlin inner city, (2) Berlin...

of the church are organized in the Company of Pastors, and the Genevan Consistory functions as a sort of parliament of the church. Female ordination is...

[yɡ(ə)no]) are a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from...

Principles), of the French Protestant Church of London, Founded by Charter of Edward VI. 24th July, A.D. 1550. By Order of the Consistory. London: Messrs. Seeleys...

Corpus Reformatorum Criticism of Protestantism Franciscus Junius (the elder) Genevan psalter History of Protestantism Immanuel Tremellius John Calvin's...

Socinians (Unitarians) were reported to operate. In the 17th century, Protestantism spread from Volhynia, Podlaskie, the Chełm region and western Ukrainian...

VI. Leo X's consistory of 1 July 1517 saw 31 cardinals created, and this remained the largest allocation of cardinals in one consistory until Pope John...

of Hanover. The simultaneously Lutheran and Calvinist consistory in Aurich was made the consistory of that church body, becoming an exclusively Calvinist...

sign of gratitude towards Pius XI." On 15 December 1937, during his last consistory, Pius XI strongly hinted to the cardinals that he expected Pacelli to...

forbidden by the Paris consistory to continue his ministerial functions. He received an address of sympathy from the consistory of Anduze, and a provision...