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

“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

To take just one example, he accurately identifies as a crucial misstep Cardinal Bellarmine’s sweeping interpretation of a rule laid down by the Council of Trent to deal with the challenge of Protestantism.

From Washington Post

In 1546 the Council of Trent said of this translation of a translation that “no one is to dare, or presume to reject it under any pretext whatever.”

From Economist

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

In the Catholic Church, the law of priestly celibacy has remained essentially unchanged since the Council of Trent in 1563.

From Time