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Council of Trent

19th Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church

8 dated entries naming Council of Trent, drawn from 7 separate years between 1545 CE and 1563 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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16th century

  • 1545December 13 – The Council of Trent officially opens in northern Italy (it closes in 1563).source
  • 1546April 8 – The Council of Trent, by a vote of 24 to 15, with 16 abstentions, issues the Decretum de Canonicis Scripturis for the scripture considered to be canon by the Roman Catholic Church. The decree recites that if anyone declines to receive all parts of the Vulgate edition of the Bible, they are in contempt of the Church and should be excommunicated. and approves the 4th century Vulgate of Jerome as its official Biblesource
  • 1546June 17 – The Council of Trent approves its second decree on Roman Catholic doctrine, Decretum de Pecatto Originali, regarding original sin, declaring that excommunication should be applied to any person who denies the teaching that the sins of Adam in the Garden of Eden condemned all of humanity, or that Christian baptism remits the guilt of original sin.source
  • 1549September 17 – The Council of Trent is prorogued indefinitely.source
  • 1551May 1 – The Council of Trent reconvenes by order of Pope Julius III after having been adjourned on September 17, 1549.source
  • 1552April 28 – The delegates to the Council of Trent adjourn for two years after learning that the Holy Roman Emperor is fleeing from Maurice of Saxony.source
  • 1562January 18 – The Council of Trent reconvenes, after a gap of 10 years.source
  • 1563December 4 – The Council of Trent (which had opened on December 13, 1545) officially closes. It reaffirms all major Roman Catholic doctrines, and declares the Deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament to be canonical, along with the rest of the Bible. Chapter 1, Session 24, promulgates the decree Tametsi, stipulating that for a marriage to be valid, consent (the essence of marriage) as expressed in the vows has to be given publicly before witnesses, one of whom has to be the parish priest.source

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