The Clementine Vulgate remained the authorized Bible of the Catholic Church for nearly four centuries. In 1546, partly in response to the Protestant Reformation, the Council of Trent declared the Latin Vulgate to be the authentic version of the Bible recognized by the Catholic Church. Yet, at the time, no version of the Vulgate was accepted as standard. After decades of study and debate, Pope Sixtus V issued an authorized edition in 1590. In 1592, however, Pope Clement VIII and Cardinal Robert Bellarmine, later named a Doctor of the Church, updated the text, in part, due to typographical errors. This copy is a second edition, published in 1593. The “Clementine” Vulgate remained the church’s standard Bible until 1979.