Consistory (Protestantism)
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In Protestant usage, a consistory designates certain ruling bodies in various churches. The meaning and the scope of functions varies strongly, also along the separating lines of the Protestant denominations and church bodies.
APU's Berlin Consistory sat in the Collegienhaus between 1737 and 1826, sharing it with the Kammergericht, and again from 1913 to 1945 as the sole user.
APU's former Posen-West Prussia Consistory, now the office of an oil and gas drilling company in Piła.
The Dokkum Consistoriekamer (consistorial chamber), venue of the Reformed local church elders.
Presbyterianism
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Presbyterianism is a Reformed (Calvinist) Protestant tradition named for its form of church government by representative assemblies of elders. Though there are other Reformed churches that are structurally similar, the word Presbyterian is applied to churches that trace their roots to the Church of Scotland or to English Dissenter groups that formed during the English Civil War.
John Knox
The Ordination of Elders in a Scottish Kirk, by John Henry Lorimer, 1891. National Gallery of Scotland.
Celtic cross draped for Easter at a Presbyterian church