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The Council of Trent was the ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church that convened from 1545 to 1563. In response to the Protestant Reformation, key statements and clarifications regarding church doctrine, teaching, and practice were prepared.

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The Catholic Church met at the Council of Trent from 1545-1563 to address the Protestant Reformation and clarify doctrine, reform church practices, and address issues of church discipline. The council aimed to strengthen the unity of the Church and combat the spread of Protestant teachings.

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The 19th ecumenical council held at Trent in the Austrian Tyrol, 1545-63, summoned for the purpose of combating Protestantism and reforming the discipline of the church; the longest and one of the most important of all general councils. It dealt in detail with the doctrinal innovations of the Reformers and with those gross abuses which gave them an opportunity to take root. It was one of the most important events of modern history and has had lasting effect. The principal dogmatic decisions were: the confirmation of the Nicene creed; the authenticity of the Latin Vulgate and the canonicity of all books contained therein and of them only; the definition of the doctrine of Original Sin; the precision of the doctrine of Justification, condemning justification by faith alone and imputation of grace; the condemnation of thirty errors about the sacraments; the definition of the real Presence and of Transubstantiation as its mode: the precision of the doctrine of the sacraments of Penance and Extreme Unction; the declaration that holy communion in both kinds was not necessary for lay-people and clerics not celebrating, Christ being received whole and entire under either species; the precision of doctrine concerning the Sacrifice of the Mass and the sacraments of holy Orders and Matrimony; the affirmation of the doctrines of Purgatory, of the invocation of saints and the veneration of them, their relics and images, and of Indulgences. Far-reaching decrees of reformation in discipline and morals were adopted involving many alterations of canon law, the decree Tametsi. One English bishop, Boldwell of St. Asaph, and three Irish, O'Hart of Achonry, MacCongail of Raphoe, and O'Herlihy of Ross, took part in the council; and Cardinal Pole, afterwards of Canterbury, was a presiding legate at the opening. From a Catholic Dictionary, Edited by Donald Attwater, 2nd ed, Revised.

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Ah, your question is a little confusing. The Council of Trent WAS the Catholic Church, it was composed of the Bishops of the Catholic Church, meeting under the Pope. The Council met 1545-63.

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The council met to discuss and condemn (what they defined as) Protestant heresies.

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