Anglican Bibles are closer to Jerome’s Vulgate than Catholic Bibles. Both omit books that were in Jerome’s Vulgate.
Well, there is the book (note:singular) that Luther threw out of the canon. A book that is so obscure that 99.9999% of Lutherans and Catholics have never heard of it, much less read it.
There also is the entire debate about the Peshitta, which Rome won through the use of superior sword play. Not theology, but the literal spilling of blood and guts.
Technically, the Vulgate is still the official Bible of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Vulgate has never been the official Bible of the Orthodox or Oriental Christian Church.
Orthodox Christianity does not have the same pathological need as Catholic Christianity to define each and every thing. It prefers to emphasis the mystery of Christ. It can accept that in one country, one book might be considered canonical, whilst in another country, that book is merely considered to be “good reading”, and in a third country, that book might be completely ignored.
The Bishop of Rome was never the leader of Orthodox Christianity. He was a representative of Western Christianity, until he chose to break with his superiors, because of his pride, and his point blank refusal to accept their guidance, which, as bishop, was canonically required to do,. His disobedience, and refusal to adhere to canon law, resulted in the catholic church wandering into schism, teaching heresies that could only result in further heresies.
Amber