He was the second of four children born to Edward Fawkes, a proctor and an advocate of the consistory court at York, and his wife, Edith.

Each Diocese has a ' Chancellor ' ( either a barrister or solicitor ) who acts as a judge in the consistory court of the diocese.

The consistory court is a type of ecclesiastical court, especially within the Church of England.

Each diocese in the Church of England has a consistory court ( called in the Diocese of Canterbury the Commissary Court ).

Historically consistory courts had a say in the cathedral and many cathedrals still contain court rooms, although these are now used for other purposes.

The registrar of the diocese is also the registrar of the consistory court.

Each consistory court has a seal, which is in the care of the registrar.

If he decides that there is a case to answer, then the trial begins in the consistory court.

Many have since been converted for other uses, for example the former consistory court at St Paul's Cathedral is now the Chapel of the Order of St. Michael and St. George.

The oldest surviving complete ecclesiastical courtroom in Great Britain is the consistory court at Chester Cathedral ( pictured above ).

Today, a consistory court can theoretically be convened and meet in any appropriate church building.

This was a very controversial move and led, eventually, to a consistory court.

In 1819 councillor of the consistory, in 1830 first preacher of the court.

*( 4 ) by deprivation and sentence of an ecclesiastical court ; under the Clergy Discipline Act 1892, an incumbent who has been convicted of offences against the law of bastardy, or against whom judgment has been given in a divorce or matrimonial cause, is deprived, and on being found guilty in the consistory court of immorality or ecclesiastical offences ( not in respect of doctrine or ritual ), he may be deprived or suspended or declared incapable of preferment ;

In 1850 he moved to Dresden as court preacher, reporting councillor in the ministry of public instruction, and vice-president of the state consistory, but two years later was called by King Maximilian II of Bavaria to return to his native state as president of the supreme consistory.

A small consistory court was held after the ending of the council's deliberations, and was attended by Bernard of Clairvaux and Suger of St Denis, along with Robert and Peter.

This led to the " Battle of the Flags " with students from Cambridge leading attacks on the church to remove the flags ; eventually a consistory court ruled against his displaying the flags and Noel obeyed the ruling.

She won a consistory court case over her claim to the rights to her land.

He finally got a Jewish defence team which offended the judge who considered a consistory court to be a court of Christian morals.

In 1783 he became registrar of the court of faculties, and in 1788 judge of the consistory court and advocate-general, in that year too receiving the honor of knighthood ; and in 1798 he was made judge of the high court of admiralty.

It is delivered only in a secret consistory at which the cardinals alone are present.

He made only one cardinal in the course of his pontificate, Willem van Enckevoirt, made a cardinal priest in a consistory held on September 10, 1523.

Pius II appointed him in 1460, when only 21 years of age, to the See of Siena, which he had just raised to an archbishopric, and made him a cardinal at his first consistory, on 5 March 1460.

In a sign of his increasing secretiveness and paranoia, he added two more cardinals secretly at the same consistory, and four more at the beginning of 1471, expecting to reveal them only in his testament.

At Rome, this definition was rejected in the consistory of 27 May, and Luther declared that he could accept it only provided the opposers would admit that hitherto they had taught differently from what was meant in the present instance.

The identities of the cardinals-to-be are generally announced some time in advance, but only at the time of the consistory does the elevation to the cardinalate take effect, since that is when the Pope formally publishes the decree of elevation.

Today, only the scarlet zucchetto and biretta are placed over the heads of cardinals in consistory.

Since the consistory, Zen has become the only Chinese cardinal under the age of 80 eligible to vote in papal conclaves.

However, an important proportion of Jews in France is completely secular ( for instance, the biggest religious organization, the consistory, has, in Paris, only 30, 000 members over a total of 300, 000 Jews ).

Abegg was born in Erlangen as the son of the preacher Dr. Johannes Wilhelm Abegg, who later moved to Königsberg to become councillor of the consistory, superintendent and later chaplain of the Court.

It has become customary for each successive Archbishop of Westminster to be raised to the rank of cardinal by the Pope in consistory, but the offices are not formally linked.

Kim was raised to the rank of Cardinal-Priest of San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle by Pope Paul VI in the consistory of April 28, 1969, having become the Archbishop of Seoul in 1968 after being the Bishop of Masan since 1966.

If he eventually receives the red hat in a future consistory, he will become the first African-American prelate ( and first Archbishop of Atlanta ) to do so.

He was the first native Venetian to become Patriarch since Cardinal Ludovico Flangini Giovanelli ( 1801 – 1804 ), and was created Cardinal-Priest of S. Prisca by Pope John in the consistory of December 15 of that same year.

The consistory is a formal meeting of the Sacred College of Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church, except when convened to elect a new pope ( in which case the meeting is called a conclave, and special rules of membership, procedure, and secrecy apply ).

He was created cardinal priest in the consistory of 3 March 1599, and transferred to the Diocese of Bayeux, but he never went there.

Aldrovandi was created Cardinal priest in the consistory of 24 March 1734 with the title of Sant ' Eusebio.

Pope Alexander VI made him a cardinal priest in the consistory of February 19, 1496.

* Nicola ( 1645 – 1717 ) Created cardinal deacon in the consistory of May 17, 1706

On 10 April 1747 he was elevated to cardinal deacon in the consistory and was ceremonially elevated and given the deaconry of San Cesareo in Palatio on 15 May.

The abbot of Loccum, who still carries a pastoral staff, takes precedence over all the clergy of Hanover, and was ex officio a member of the consistory of the kingdom.

Only twice in his pontificate did Pius XII hold a consistory to create new cardinals, in contrast to Pius XI, who had done so 17 times in as many years.

But they were discovered and the Pope raced back to Rome where he immediately held a consistory and demanded to know who the new pope was.

The immediate rule was the responsibility of the consistory, to which belonged all the professors of the university, and the rector magnificus, who was elected for a semester at the time ; the latter position circulated among the professors, each of whom sometimes held it several times.

Pius VII ' Secretary of State, Ercole Consalvi, who had been Della Genga's rival in the consistory, was immediately dismissed, and Pius ' policies rejected.

In the consistory of 3 June 1921, Pope Benedict created three new cardinals, among them Achille Ratti, who was appointed as Archbishop of Milan simultaneously.

At the Council of Florence, held in Ferrara ( 1438 ) and then Florence ( 1439 – 1445 ), Bessarion supported the Roman church and gained the favour of Pope Eugene IV, who invested him with the rank of cardinal at a consistory of 18 December 1439.

: After my recent experience in Rome in the highest circles, which I cannot reveal here, I must say that I found, despite everything, a greater tolerance with regard to the new government ... Let us meditate on the words of the Holy Father, who in a consistory, without mentioning his name, indicated before the whole world in Adolf Hitler the statesmen who first, after the Pope himself, has raised his voice against Bolshevism.

When, under Napoleon's rule, the Kingdom of Westphalia was created, and the emperor's brother Jérôme Bonaparte was placed at its head, Jacobson, who had removed to the residence of the king at Cassel, was appointed president of the Jewish consistory, established on 3 March 1808.

He has been succeeded in Kampala by Archbishop Cyprian Kizito Lwanga, who is himself likely to be named a Cardinal in the next consistory given that his predecessors as Archbishop were.

The ordinary of the archdiocese is the Patriarch of Venice, who is traditionally created a cardinal in consistory by the Pope.

The proposition in itself was perfectly justified, but the propositions of Friedländer, who had meanwhile been called ( 1813 ) to the conferences on the reorganization of the Jewish cult held in the Jewish consistory at Cassel, were unacceptable to even the most radical members, as they tended to reduce Judaism to a mere colorless code of ethics.