council of trent

     

The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church. Consiered one of the Church's most important councils, it convened in Trent for three periods between December 13, 1545, and December 4, 1563, as a response to the Protestant Reformation. It clearly specified Catholic doctrine on salvation, the sacraments, and the Biblical canon, answering all Protestant disputes. It entrusted to the Pope the completion of some sections of its work, as a result of which Pope Pius V issued in 1566 the Roman Catechism, in 1568 a revised Roman Breviary, and in 1570 a revised Roman Missal, thus initiating what since the twentieth century has been called the Tridentine Mass (from the city's Latin name Tridentum), and Pope Clement VIII issued in 1592 a revised edition of the Vulgate.

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  • This council that opened in 1545 was called in part to counteract Protestant teachings