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Jerome

4th and 5th-century Catholic and Eastern Orthodox saint and Doctor of the Church

14 dated entries naming Jerome, drawn from 14 separate years between 340 CE and 1546 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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4th century

  • 340Jerome, priest and Bible translator (approximate date)source
  • 347March 27 – Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Bible (approximate date)source
  • 359July – Emperor Constantius II convenes the Council of Rimini, to resolve the crisis over Arianism in the Church. Some 400 bishops of the Western portion of the Roman Empire attend, while the Eastern bishops simultaneously hold a meeting at Seleucia. Given Saint Jerome's comment that, "The whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian", it appears to have failed. Pope Liberius rejects the new creed at Rimini.source
  • 375Saint Jerome retires to the desert of Chalcis (Syria).source
  • 382The Council of Rome establishes Biblical canon in the Catholic Church. Pope Damasus I commissions a revision of the Vetus Latina, eventually resulting in the Vulgate of Jerome.source
  • 384Jerome, Christian prophet, writes his celebrated letter "De custodia virginitatis" (vow of virginity) to Eustochium, daughter of the ascetic Paula. He has by this time completed his Vulgate translation of the Gospels.source
  • 385The Roman synod exiles the prophet Jerome, who has incorporated ideas first propounded by the Roman statesman Cicero. He departs for Egypt, Bethlehem, and Jerusalem, accompanied by the Christian ascetic Paula, who will edit Jerome's translation of the Bible, which becomes the Latin Vulgate.source
  • 388Jerome moves to Palestine, where he spends the rest of his life as a hermit near Bethlehem.source
  • 390Jerome, having finished the Latin translation of the New Testament, begins translating the Old Testament.source

5th century

  • 402Jerome writes "Apologiae contra Rufinum" and "Liber tertius seu ultima responsio adversus scripta Rufini".source
  • 405Jerome's Vulgate translation of the Bible into Latin is completed by his translations of the Tanakh from the Hebrew language.source
  • 420September 30 – Saint Jerome, priest and translator of the Biblesource

13th century

  • 1298Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.source

16th century

  • 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

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