At the Council of Trent in 1546, it had declared that the Latin Vulgate produced by Jerome in the 400s CE was the authoritative text for the church. For Protestants, the Catholic resistance was ...

He was the translator of the Vulgate version of the Bible. St. Jerome was born in Dalmatia around 340-342 AD. Having grown up a wealthy pagan, Jerome visited Rome at about 20 and was converted and ...