Trent remove canon?

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“The Council of Trent definitively removed it from the canon” ( New Catholic Encyclopedia (New York: McGraw Hill, 1967), Volume II, Bible, III, pp.396-397).

I was reading about esdras and the supposed diffrence bewteen carthrage and trent and this came up, does anh body have the NCE if it says this?
 
The reason 1(3) Esdras very well could belong in the Bible is because at the Councils in circa 400 like Hippo and Carthage etc, Ezra-Nehemiah were considered one book. They weren’t split into two until the middle ages. Hence when the Councils called two books of Esdras, they probably were saying Ezra-Nehemiah and 1(3) Esdras. Later councils with the split of the two books probably overlooked this fact. Especially since most Church Fathers used 1 Esdras when citing, so it was probably just as popular as our Ezra-Nehemiah in the early Church and precedes our canonical books in the Orthodox Bibles.
This isn’t proof , it is a hypothesis made. We likely will never know.
Trent didn’t really remove anything from the canon it just looked at ancient lists and took it out of the Old Testament if it wasn’t there.
That’s why in the Clementine Vulgate, 1(3) Esdras, 2(4) Esdras, and the Prayer of Manasseh appear in the appendix, because they weren’t part of the Canon of Trent however because of their ancient usage they were still deemed worthy to be read.

The Books of Esdras are confusing when it comes to numbering. This chart explains it quite well.

 
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