Council of Trent

British  

noun

1. the council of the Roman Catholic Church that met between 1545 and 1563 at Trent in S Tyrol. Reacting against the Protestants, it reaffirmed traditional Catholic beliefs and formulated the ideals of the Counter-Reformation

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Example Sentences

The Council of Trent, called by the Roman Catholic Church in 1545, reaffirmed some aspects of church doctrine while also passing reforms that attempted to eliminate some of the problems that led to the Reformation.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

“Restorationism has come to gag the council,” he said, adding that he knew some priests for whom the 16th century Council of Trent was more memorable than the 20th century Vatican II.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 14, 2022

He invents with such empathy that the closest thing to an unmitigated villain is Pius IV, the new Nero presiding over the conflagration lit by the Council of Trent.

From Washington Post • Apr. 1, 2016

The Council of Trent, which had been convened in response to the threat posed by Protestantism, had ended only two years previously and the counter-Reformation, with its purgative restatement of Catholic first principles, was underway.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2013

Fray Pedro de Soto, a Dominican, confessor to Charles V. and first theologian of Pope Pius IV. in the third convocation of the Council of Trent.

From The History of the Inquisition of Spain from the Time of its Establishment to the Reign of Ferdinand VII. by Llorente, Juan Antonio