When did the Apocrypha get added to the Old Testament by the Catholic Church?
The books were officially included in the Bible at the Catholic Council of Trent (1545- 63). The official acceptance being in April 1546. The Church before this time had been divided on whether to include the books. People for including the Apocrypha * In 405 AD Pope Innocent 1 endorsed the books. * Many early church Fathers: Tertullian, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria. * The Syrian Church in the 4th Century. * The Eastern Orthodox Churches today. * Augustine when he was at the Council of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397) People who rejected the Apocrypha * Many early church Fathers like Origen, Athanasius, Cyril of Jerusalem. * Jerome the translator of the official Catholic Bible called the Latin Vulgate. * The Catholic Pope in 600 AD. * The Syrian Bible called the Pesshitta did not contain the Apocrypha in the Second century AD. * The Greek Orthodox church accepted the Apocrypha in the Councils of Constantinople (1638), Jaffa (1642) and Jerusalem (1672) but in the Larger * Catechism of
