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5 unusual facts about Roman Catechism


Pedro Páez

In addition to translating the Roman Catechism into Ge'ez, Páez is believed to be the author of the treatise De Abyssinorum erroribus.

Roman Catechism

During the Protestant Reformation, the popular tracts and catechisms of Martin Luther, John Calvin and other Reformers were sold in areas controlled by Protestant monarchs, who determined the faith in their region (see: Cuius regio, eius religio).

Gerhard J. Bellinger: Bibliographie des Catechismus Romanus: Ex Decreto Concilii Tridentini ad Parochos 1566-1978.

The next English translation is by Jeremy Donovan, a professor at Maynooth, published by Richard Coyne, Capel Street, Dublin, and by Keating & Brown, London, and printed for the translator by W. Folds & Son, Great Shand Street, 1829.

Silvio Antoniano

He was one of the compilers of the Roman Catechism and a member of the commission charged by Clement VIII with the revision of the Breviary.


Gerhard J. Bellinger

(dogmatic theology and dogma history), Walter Kasper (dogmatic theology), Johann Baptist Metz (fundamental theology) and above all by Theodor Filthaut (practical theology), which referred him to the Roman Catechism as topic of a thesis and became then also his doctor father.

Gugliemo Sirleto

He collaborated in the publication of the Roman Catechism, presided over the Commissions for the reform of Roman Breviary and Roman Missal, and directed the work of the new edition of the Roman Martyrology.


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