How many books were decided at the Council of Rome 382, Council of Carthage 397 and the Synod of Hippo 393? Was it all 73 books of the Catholic canon?
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How many books were decided at the Council of Rome 382, Council of Carthage 397 and the Synod of Hippo 393?
Were exactly all 73 books of the Catholic Bible declared canon at these three councils?
[Catholic.com](https://www.catholic.com/qa/was-the-canon-of-scripture-determined-before-the-church-councils-that-decided-it) says:
> It was not until the Synod of Rome under Pope Damasus in A.D. 382, followed by the Councils of Hippo and Carthage, that the Catholic Church defined, albeit non-infallibly, which books made it into the New Testament and which didn’t.
I didn't see the word "Baruch" on either of the Wikipedia pages for the two later councils:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Hippo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Councils_of_Carthage
Wikipedia says Baruch was missing from the Council of Rome:
> The Council of Rome was a meeting of Catholic Church officials and theologians which took place in AD 382 under the authority of Pope Damasus I, the then Bishop of Rome. According to Decretum Gelasianum, which is a work written by an anonymous scholar between AD 519 and 553, the Council of Rome cites a list of books of scripture presented as having been made canonical. This list mentions all the deuterocanonical books except Baruch and the Letter of Jeremiah as a part of the Old Testament Canon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Rome
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Oct 4, 2021, 04:15 PM