Council of Trent
Catholic reform council
The Council of Trent was a major assembly of Catholic Church leaders held in Trent, northern Italy, between 1545 and 1563.
Convened in response to the Protestant Reformation, it clarified Catholic doctrine, condemned Protestant teachings, and instituted reforms addressing corruption and abuse within the Church.
The council's decrees shaped Catholic practice for centuries and defined the Counter-Reformation.
Church's internal reform movement
- TrentoItalian alpine provincial capital
- sixteenth centuryYears 1501-1600
- Holy Roman EmpireMedieval Germanic political entity
- Philip IIAncient Macedonian ruler
Bologna · sessions · decrees · canons · prelates · bishops · cardinals · theologians
Change of underlying substance
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
- justificationReason proving rightness
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
- salvationDeliverance from harm
purgatory · sacred images · relics · indulgences · merit · free will · baptism · confirmation
Intensely detested thing
- LutheranismProtestant tradition emphasizing grace
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- condemnationsFormal expressions of strong disapproval
- canon lawReligious institutional regulations
excommunication · schism · heresy · Catholic identity · apologetics
Congregation's official record books
- beneficesClergy positions with income
- visitationsScheduled visits, often official
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
- Tridentine MassPre-1962 Catholic liturgical form
Counter-Reformation
Church's internal reform movement
- TrentoItalian alpine provincial capital
- sixteenth centuryYears 1501-1600
- Holy Roman EmpireMedieval Germanic political entity
Philip II · Bologna · sessions · decrees · canons · prelates · bishops · cardinals · theologians · Church Fathers
transubstantiation
Change of underlying substance
- original sinInherited spiritual corruption
- justificationReason proving rightness
- graceEffortless beauty of motion
salvation · purgatory · sacred images · relics · indulgences · merit · free will · baptism · confirmation · penance
anathema
Intensely detested thing
- LutheranismProtestant tradition emphasizing grace
- CalvinismPredestinarian Protestant theology
- condemnationsFormal expressions of strong disapproval
canon law · excommunication · schism · heresy · Catholic identity · apologetics
parish registers
Congregation's official record books
- beneficesClergy positions with income
- visitationsScheduled visits, often official
- moral reformEffort to improve conduct
- Catholic ChurchVatican, papacy, cardinals, popes, papal
- Catholic liturgyMass, missal, lectionary, liturgical year, rubrics
- church historychurch history, apostles, Protestant Reformation, Christian history, baptism
- Early ModernRenaissance, 1500s, 1600s, Reformation, sixteenth century
- ReformationMartin Luther, John Calvin, 95 Theses, Protestant Reformation, Luther
- 1500sElizabeth I, Shakespeare, Spanish Armada, Protestant Reformation, Martin Luther
Council of TrentProtestant Reformation
Religious movement splitting Christianity
Diet of Worms · Augsburg Confession · Martin Luther · John Calvin · Lutheranism
Council of TrentCalvinism
Predestinarian Protestant theology
Lutheranism · Westminster Confession · Synod of Dort · Radical Reformation · Anabaptism
council, councils, councilman, councilor, Trenton, councillor, councilwoman, councilmen, councilwomen