What's the difference between consistory and prelate?
Consistory
Definition:
(n.) Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence, any solemn assembly or council.
(n.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral church or elsewhere.
(n.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the college of cardinals at Rome.
(n.) A church tribunal or governing body.
(n.) A civil court of justice.
(a.) Of the nature of, or pertaining to, a consistory.
Example Sentences:
(1) These tinpot Torquemadas will not be satisfied, I suspect, until Archer follows the example of the Rev Harold Davidson, the former rector of Stiffkey, who in 1932 was found guilty by a consistory court of "associating with women of a loose character" and "embracing a young woman in a public room at a Chinese restaurant at Bloomsbury".
(2) Kelly said: "Now that the Ryan commission is finished we call upon Pope Benedict to convene a special consistory court to fully investigate the activities of Catholic religious orders in Ireland.
(3) John Kelly, the Isoca co-ordinator in Dublin, said: "Now that the Ryan [Laffoy] commission is finished, we call upon ... Pope Benedict XVI to convene a special consistory court to fully investigate the activities of the Catholic religious orders in Ireland.
(4) Walter Kasper, the cardinal Francis chose to speak on the subject at a consistory earlier this year, told La Repubblica newspaper this week that the church should try to find a "realistic application of doctrine", adding: "The church must never judge as though it had a guillotine in its hands."
Prelate
Definition:
(n.) A clergyman of a superior order, as an archbishop or a bishop, having authority over the lower clergy; a dignitary of the church.
(v. i.) To act as a prelate.
Example Sentences:
(1) One of those called to hear the announcement, the Mexican prelate Monsignor Dr Oscar Sánchez, said none of the cardinals had expected it.
(2) Read more The Labour leader had previously indicated he would have to think about whether to attend the Buckingham Palace ceremony, at which new members have to kneel, kiss the monarch’s hand and swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(3) Both prelated, lyophilized tissue lenses and freshly cut lenticules have been employed with good results.
(4) The frequency of iron deficiency--prelatent, latent or manifest anemia -- can be understood from the peculiarities of iron metabolism in this early period of life.
(5) The speculation peaked in February when, soon after Benedict XVI resigned, the Italian newspaper La Repubblica claimed he had decided to step down after receiving a dossier investigating the Vatileaks scandal containing details of a network of gay prelates , some of whom were vulnerable to blackmail.
(6) Training caused an initial depletion of body iron stores (prelatent iron deficiency).
(7) The prelate can also demand to see any document he cares to inspect.
(8) On 15 June, the pope appointed Monsignor Battista Ricca, an Italian cleric and former Vatican diplomat, to be "prelate" of the bank, formally known as the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR).
(9) Since information pertinent to the effect of prelatent or latent iron deficiency on tissue iron is scare, the present study was aimed at producing this stage of iron deficiency in rats by phlebotomy and to determine whether the mitochondrial iron-containing enzymes, succinate dehydrogenase (SDH) and glycerophosphate dehydrogenase (GPDH) were affected.
(10) I’m labeled as ultra-conservative because I’ve been outspoken on issues that are politically unpopular and on the conservative side of the political spectrum,” said Cordileone, a balding man with water-colored blue eyes who serves as prelate to the approximately 500,000 Catholics in the San Francisco area, and was a key force behind the state’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage that was ultimately overturned by courts.
(11) Nicola Gratteri, who has battled Calabria's shadowy 'Ndrangheta mafia , said on Wednesday that Francis's attempt to bring transparency to the Vatican was making the white collar mobsters who do business with corrupt prelates "nervous and agitated".
(12) He joked about Monsignor Nunzio Scarano, a prelate alleged to have tried to fly €20m in cash into Italy illegally, saying he "didn't go to jail because he resembled a saint".
(13) Six women and two men had ferritin levels below 28 ng X ml-1, which suggests prelatent iron deficiency.
(14) One month after two Orthodox Christian bishops were kidnapped by gunmen in Syria , officials say they still have no idea what has happened to the missing prelates.
(15) And one of the first actions Pope Francis took was to visit perhaps the most high-profile corrupt prelate on the planet, Cardinal Bernard Law, who remains a powerful church official despite having been drummed out of Boston for hiding and enabling crimes by hundreds of child molesting clerics," Dorris said in a statement.
(16) They also have to swear to defend her against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.
(17) The null hypotheses were that there are no differences in the manifestations of sexual and aggressive drives during the prelatency and latency as well as the latency and postlatency stage groups.
(18) • Pope Shenouda III (Nazir Gayed), prelate, born 3 August 1923; died 17 March 2012
(19) The increased diagnostic 59Fe2+ absorption is a reliable and sensitive indicator of at least depleted iron stores or prelatent iron deficiency as caused by iron malnutrition or maldigestion, increased iron requirement in pregnancy, infancy, urogenital or gastrointestinal blood loss.
(20) New members are also meant to swear to defend the monarch against “all foreign princes, persons, prelates, states or potentates”.