The Tridentine Profession of Faith
The form of profession issued by Pope Pius IV in the bull Iniunctum nobis after the Council of Trent, to be sworn by Catholic clergy and teachers. It joins the Nicene Creed to a summary of what Trent had defined.
Schaff prints the profession from the bulls of Pius IV Iniunctum nobis of 13 November 1564 and In sacrosancta of 9 December 1564. It opens with the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed and goes on, in the first person, to accept the apostolic and ecclesiastical traditions, Scripture in the sense held by the Church, the seven sacraments, the decrees of Trent on original sin and justification, the sacrifice of the Mass and transubstantiation, purgatory, the invocation of saints, images and indulgences, and it ends with a promise of obedience to the bishop of Rome.
It is a short official summary of the council’s teaching, made within a year of its close, and it shows what the papacy thought essential. It adds nothing to the decrees themselves, which remain the source for what Trent taught.
Cited in
- 1545 to 1563, firm date