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Definition of Council of trent

1. Noun. A council of the Roman Catholic Church convened in Trento in three sessions between 1545 and 1563 to examine and condemn the teachings of Martin Luther and other Protestant reformers; redefined the Roman Catholic doctrine and abolished various ecclesiastical abuses and strengthened the papacy.

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Literary usage of Council of trent

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The council of Trent, as we know, ordered that the official books ... After the Council of Trent.—The numerous important decrees made by the council of ..."

2. The Papacy and the Levant (1204-1571). by Kenneth M. Setton (1984)
"THE THIRD PERIOD AND CLOSURE OF THE council of trent (1561-1563) DESPITE THE recalcitrance of the Emperor Ferdinand and the objections of the French ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The doctrine on this subject is found in the seventh chapter on justification in the sixth session of the Council of Trent. Many of the Fathers of the ..."

4. The Reformation by George Park Fisher (1906)
"The Council of Trent was formally opened in December, 1545. The great question was whether it should begin with the reform of the Papacy, ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"Further and more detailed legislation followed, and the Council of Trent decreed ... The Council of Trent left the further provision concerning the whole ..."

6. A Manual of Church History by Albert Henry Newman (1903)
"The Council of Trent, especially in its later and more important phases, ... Cone, von Trent, 1876; Froude, " Lectures on the Council of Trent," 1896; ..."

7. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The council of Trent, as we know, ordered that the official books ц-ù,, ... After the Council of Trent.—The numerous important decrees made by the council ..."

8. The Cambridge Modern History by Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1904)
"With the close of the Council of Trent the determination of the principles which were to regulate the reorganisation of the Catholic Church was completed. ..."

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