consistory

1 :  a solemn assembly :  council

2 :  a church tribunal or governing body: such asa :  a solemn meeting of Roman Catholic cardinals convoked and presided over by the popeb :  a church session in some Reformed churches

3 :  the organization that confers the degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry usually from the 19th to the 32nd inclusive; also :  a meeting of such an organization