Council of Trent
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Council of Trent

Ecumenical Council
1545–1563

The nineteenth ecumenical council; its Thirteenth Session (1551) defined Catholic eucharistic doctrine, including transubstantiation.

Council of Trent · 1545–1563 1551
“If any one saith, that, in the sacred and holy sacrament of the Eucharist, the substance of the bread and wine remains conjointly with the body and blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, and denieth that wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body, and of the whole substance of the wine into the Blood — the species only of the bread and wine remaining — which conversion indeed the Catholic Church most aptly calls Transubstantiation; let him be anathema.”
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent, Session XIII, Canon II PD · J. Waterworth ↗
Canons and Decrees of the Council of Trent
1848 · PD · J. Waterworth
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