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The Canon of Trent is the list of books officially considered canonical at the Roman Catholic Council of Trent. A decree, the De Canonicis Scripturis , from the Council's fourth session (of 8 April 1546), issued an anathema on dissenters of the books affirmed in Trent.
The council also officially affirmed the traditional Catholic Canon of biblical books, which was identical to the canon of Scripture issued by the Council of Rome under Pope Damasus in 382. [25] This was in response to the increasing Protestant exclusion of the deuterocanonical books. [3]
The Council of Trent on April 8, 1546, approved the enforcement of the present Roman Catholic Bible Canon including the Deuterocanonical Books as an article of faith, and the decision was confirmed by an anathema by vote (24 yea, 15 nay, 16 abstain). [154]
Later, the Catholic Church formally affirmed its canon of scripture with the Synod of Hippo (393), followed by a Council of Carthage (397), another Council of Carthage (419), the Council of Florence (1431–1449), and the Council of Trent (1545–1563). The canon consists of 46 books in the Old Testament and 27 books in the New Testament, for a ...
The first Council that accepted the present Catholic canon (the Canon of Trent of 1546) may have been the Synod of Hippo Regius, held in North Africa in 393. A brief summary of the acts was read at and accepted by the Council of Carthage (397) and also the Council of Carthage (419) . [ 49 ]
The Council of Trent, an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church, most directly approached the subject of sacred scripture in its Fourth Session on 8 April 1546. [6] The First Decree of this Fourth Session, " Concerning the Canonical Scriptures ", dealt with the Canon of Trent and made an explicit list of the books which must be included in a ...
These councils [61] were under significant influence of Augustine of Hippo, who also regarded the Biblical canon as already closed. [62] [63] [64] The Roman Catholic Council of Florence (1442) confirmed the first canon too, [69] while the Council of Trent (1546) elevated the first canon to dogma. [97]
Council of Trent (1545–1563, with interruptions) addressed church reform and repudiated Protestantism, defined the role and canon of Scripture and the seven sacraments, and strengthened clerical discipline and education. Considered the founding event of the Counter-Reformation.