How authoritative is the Tridentine Creed?

[YehoiakhinEx232]

I’ve recently discovered, and got into the habit of reciting the Creed of Pope Pius IV, also known as the Tridentine Creed, or the Tridentine profession of Faith. I’ve heard that it is on the same level as the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed, is that true?

How authoritative is this creed/profession?

 

[dmar198]

I don’t see how it would be any less authoritative. I think the only thing that gives a creed authority is the Church’s approval, and all the creeds you’ve mentioned have that.

 

[Genesis315]

It’s a true creed that the Church has judged to be a true profession of faith. Since the faith never changes, it’s always authoritative and good. Apart from the Creeds used in liturgical rites, the Church uses the following profession of faith nowadays. Like the Tridentine Creed, it begins with the Nicene Creed, but instead of then focusing on the controverted issues Trent addressed, it has a more general, all encompassing profession.

[Nicene Creed…]
With firm faith, I also believe everything contained in the word of God, whether written or handed down in Tradition, which the Church, either by a solemn judgment or by the ordinary and universal Magisterium, sets forth to be believed as divinely revealed.

I also firmly accept and hold each and everything definitively proposed by the Church regarding teaching on faith and morals.

Moreover, I adhere with religious submission of will and intellect to the teachings which either the Roman Pontiff or the College of Bishops enunciate when they exercise their authentic Magisterium, even if they do not intend to proclaim these teachings by a definitive act.