Thursday, January 26, 2023

The Council of Trent

The Council of Trent was held between 1545 and 1563 in Trento, northern Italy, and was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. The council met for twenty-five sessions, and was overseen by Pope Paul III (1545 - 1547), Pope Julius III (1551 - 1552), and Pope Pius IV (1562 - 1563).

The purpose of the Council was to issue condemnations of heresies, key statements and clarifications of the Church’s doctrine, and the veneration of saints. It also made the Latin Vulgate the official biblical text of the Roman Church, and commissioned the creation of a revised and standardised Vulgate in light of textual criticism (although it wasn’t completed until the 1590s).


After the Council’s reign, it would be another three hundred years before the next ecumenical council, the First Vatican Council, in 1869.
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