Council of Trent

The Council of Trent (Italian: Trento) was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church held in discontinuous sessions between 1545 and 1563 in response to the Protestant Reformation. The Council should have been held in Vicenza (20 miles west of Venice), but the aristocratic family that promoted the event was considered to be too fond of the Emperor, so the council was moved to Trent.

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Trento - Ecumenical council - Catholic - 1545 - 1563 - Protestant Reformation - Vicenza

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The nineteenth (or, according to another reckoning, the eighteenth) of the ecumenical councils recognized by the Roman Catholic Church, the Council of Trent takes its name from the city where it was held, Trento (or Trent in English), in the southern and Italian part of the Tyrol (73 miles north west of Venice), and lasted, with interruptions, including a long one from 1552 to 1562, from December 13, 1545, to December 4, 1563.

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Ecumenical council - Roman Catholic Church - Trento - 1552 - 1562 - December 13 - 1545 - December 4 - 1563

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From a doctrinal and disciplinary point of view, it was the most important council in the history of the Roman church, fixing her distinctive faith and practice in relation to the Protestant Evangelical churches. Its decrees were supplemented by the First Vatican Council of 1870. It clearly specified Catholic doctrines on salvation, the sacraments and the Biblical canon, in opposition to the Protestants, and standardized the Mass throughout the church, largely abolishing local variations; this became called the "Tridentine Mass", from the city's Latin name Tridentum.

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First Vatican Council - 1870 - Sacrament - Biblical canon - Protestants - Tridentine Mass - Latin

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