No. you are presuming some of those local meetings were churchwide. They were not. In fact the one in Carthage went forward without even consultiing the Roman church.
No Protestants did not remove those books from the bible. They were not really in the bible until Trent since they had never been formally been accepted church wide until Trent. In the Vulgate Jerome labeled them as apochrypha. The Reformers accepted his view.
Until Trent there were advocaes of both views. Your informationi is not correct.
Dont know what you are shrugging about. Here is an expert to explain.
The Bible, the Church, and Authority
by Joseph T. Lienhard (Catholic)
“At the time of the Reformation, the canon of the Bible, Old and New
Testaments, was called into question. Generally, the Protestants
disputed the Catholic claim to interpret scripture, either by Papal
decree or by the action of church councils.No one had defined the
limits of the Bible until the (Catholic) Council of Trent, 1546
From this time, the Roman Catholic Church declared that the Old
and New Testaments, plus the deuterocanoncial books that were
called Apocrypha by the Protestants, were scripture.”
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“For the first fifteen hundred years of christianity, no christian
church put forth a difinintive list of Bible books. Most christians
had followed St. Augustine and included the “Apocrapha” in the canon,
but St. Jerome, who excluded them, had always had his defenders.”
“He (Jerome) writes,‘This preface to the Scriptures may serve as a helmeted introduction
to all the books which we turn from Hebrew into Latin, so that we may be assured that
what is not found in our list must be placed among the Apochryphal writings’. He then
exludes Wisdom. Sarach, Judith, Tobit, the Shepherd and 1&2 Maccabees. He does not mention
Baruch.”
Peace, JohnR
