Louis Napoleon gave to the Reformed Church a central council in Paris with consistories and presbyteries; to the Lutheran, an annual general consistory as a legislative court and a standing directory as an administrative court.
The transition ministry of =Ladenberg= was assured by consistories and faculties of the danger of convoking such a synod of representatives of the people.
In Hesse= the ministry of Von Mühler sought to bring about a combination of the three consistories of Hanau, Cassel, and Marburg, as a necessary vehicle for the introduction of a new synodal constitution.
The consistories of these provinces were still to continue independent of the Supreme Church Council.
The royal delegates became a Court of High Commission, which may have been modelled on the Consistories of the German Princes, and had somewhat the same powers.
Consistories and Luther’s relations to them, see our vol.
In the event the advice of Jonas was followed, jurisdiction being conferred on the Consistories directly by the ruler of the land.
The introduction of the Consistoriesin 1539 was a result of the idea expressed by Justus Jonas in his memorandum, viz.
Its consistories are grouped into two special synods, one at Paris and one at Montbeliard (for the department of Doubs and Haute-Saone and the territory of Belfort, where the churches of this denomination are principally situated).
Discipline over ministers and other office-bearers was exercised by administrative methods in the form of trials before consistories or synods.
The bishops had consistorial courts; the patriarchs, chanceries and consistories (ib.
Consistories and synods have exercised discipline of a penitential kind over their lay members; but in later times their censures have generally ceased to carry temporal consequences.
The transformation of the Rabbinate through the establishment of rabbinical seminaries, the appointment of graduates from German universities as rabbis, and the formation of consistories after the pattern of Western Europe.
All communal and cultural affairs shall be put in charge of "directorates," one central directorate in Warsaw and local ones in every province of the Kingdom, after the pattern of the Jewish consistories of France.
According to him the authority of the consistories was to embrace the whole domain of Church government.
In 1537 the “Great Committee of the Torgau district” demanded, that the Elector should establish four consistoriesin his lands.
Two provisions suggested by Luther for the future in lieu of the impracticable synods were, the establishment of nationalconsistories and the use of a sort of excommunication.
It was not till 1541 that the work of the consistories was more generally extended.
The Consistories displeased him and made life unbearable.
The consistories both in the Saxon Electorate and in most other places where they had been copied became exclusively organs of Church government by the State, though still composed of theologians and lawyers.
In the Saxon electorate the consistories had been introduced in 1539, not so much at the instance of Luther as of the committee representing the Estates.
In order to understand Luther’s attitude towards the consistories and to gauge rightly his responsibility, some further particulars of their rise and earliest form are called for.
In Sweden they preside over local consistories composed of clerical and lay members.
Instead of the appointments to the membership of the consistories being made by the bishops, they were made by the supreme civil authority, whatever that might be.
The Consistories and the Councils of the Elders are no longer allowed to receive and administer legacies for the relief of the poor, for hospitals or asylums.
The Protestant Consistories have been deprived of their right to nominate candidates for examination as teachers.
Like the councils, the consistories were composed of men renowned for their faith, their learning, and their sanctity.
We would have removed from the Episcopal Consistories the lay person chosen by the government, in order that, in these assemblies, the bishops may be able to act with all liberty.
Most of the consistories summoned the clergymen to labor to secure a vote in favor of the king.
A system of consistories was organized throughout France, culminating in a central consistory at Paris with a Grand-Rabbin at its head.
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