1566 CE: THE “ROMAN CATECHISM”

…i.e. the Roman Catholic Catechism of 1566

–commissioned by the (Catholic) Council of Trent (noted above, 1545–1563 CE)

–to expound doctrine and to improve theological understanding – with the Catholic clergy itself as the primary intended audience.

It enjoyed an authority within the Catholic Church enjoyed by no other catechism until the Catechism of the Catholic Church 1992 (428 years later).