Across eighteen years and three convocations, Trent defines Catholic doctrine against the Reformation and reforms the clergy; the Tridentine settlement governs Catholic life for four centuries.
Tagged: Councils Catholic Christian
The Event
- Date
- 1545–1563 (exact)
- Also called
- Tridentine council
- Era
- Reformation; Standard ecumenical periodization
- Location
- Trent; today Trento, Italy
- Traditions
- Christianity
- Streams
- Catholic
- Key figures
- Paul III, Pius IV
- Key texts
- Decrees and canons of Trent, Roman Catechism (1566)
How the Tradition Tells It
Trent's decrees bind the Catholic Church; the Protestant traditions formed in the same years rejected its authority while sharing its concern for clerical reform.
Connections
- Luther's Ninety-Five Theses; responded_to
Doctrines in Play
Sacraments and Ordinances, Salvation
Primary Sources
- Decrees and canons of the Council of Trent
- Roman Catechism (1566)
Secondary Sources
- González, The Story of Christianity, vols. 1–2 (Harper, 2010)
- MacCulloch, A History of Christianity (Allen Lane, 2009)
Provenance: HIST-0036; confidence 0.95; accessed 2026-10-26.
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