HISC65H3 Final: Final Exam Key Terms
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The counter-reformation was a comprehensive effort, composed of four major elements: ecclesiastical or structural reconfiguration, religious orders, spiritual movements, political dimensions. It also involved political activities that included the roman inquisition: council of trent (1545-63) Council meted to define the principles of the church for years to come internal reform, effort to reform the church in response to critics. Issues: importance of the parish as the smallest unit of the church hierarchy: parishes previously neglected but became a focal point of the church after the. Instituted a book of matrimony and a book of baptism. 16th-century ecumenical council of the roman catholic church. It is considered to be one of the church"s most important councils. It convened in trent (then capital of the. Prince-bishopric of trent, in the holy roman empire, now in modern italy) between. December 13, 1545, and december 4, 1563 in twenty-five sessions for three periods.
