Council of Trent (jan 1, 1545 – jan 1, 1563)
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The 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. It served to define Catholic ideology and made sweeping decrees on self-reform, helping to revitalize the Roman Catholic Church in the face of Protestant expansion. It has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation.
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