Tridentine
Americanadjective
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of or relating to the city of Trent.
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of or relating to the Council of Trent.
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conforming to the decrees and doctrines of the Council of Trent.
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Tridentine
1555–65; < Medieval Latin Tridentīnus, adj. use of Latin Tridentīnus area of the Rhaetian Alps around Tridentum; see -ine 1
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In 1999, O'Connor was ordained a priest in the Latin Tridentine Church, an independent Catholic church, not in communion with Rome.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2023
By the fall of 2010, the panel was returned to the Tridentine Diocesan Museum in Trento, Italy.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
He intensified those restrictions last weekend with a new set of rules that forbids even the publication of Tridentine Mass times in parish bulletins.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Francis’ predecessor, Pope Benedict XVI, had relaxed restrictions on the old Latin Mass, also called the Tridentine Mass, in 2007.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2021
The Tridentine Council summarily describes justification as “the state of grace and of the adoption of the sons of God,”1087 The teaching of Holy Scripture can be gathered from such texts as the following.
From Grace, Actual and Habitual A Dogmatic Treatise by Arthur Preuss
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