1. curia - Noun
2. Curia - Proper noun
One of the thirty parts into which the Roman people were divided by Romulus.
The place of assembly of one of these divisions.
The place where the meetings of the senate were held; the senate house.
The court of a sovereign or of a feudal lord; also; his residence or his household.
Any court of justice.
The Roman See in its temporal aspects, including all the machinery of administration; -- called also curia Romana.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome. Hans Küng
The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there. Pope Francis
Annuario Pontificio 2012, p. 819 Many of the titular sees to which nuncios and heads of departments of the Roman Curia who are not cardinals are assigned are not of archiepiscopal rank. Source: Internet
Asked if religious services would be resuming anytime soon, a Curia spokesman told Times of Malta that Church authorities were in constant contact with the health authorities. Source: Internet
Baronii Annales Ecclesiastici 22 (Bar-le-Duc 1870), p. 537, under the year 1284, no. 17. He removed himself and the Papal Curia from Orvieto on 26 June 1284, and arrived in Perugia on 4 October. Source: Internet
A key event in the persecution of the Polish church was the Stalinist show trial of the Kraków Curia in January 1953. Source: Internet