<P> According to the Latin Decretum Gelasianum ( also known as the Gelasian Decree ) , thought to be of a 6th - century document of uncertain authorship and of pseudepigraphal papal authority ( variously ascribed to Pope Gelasius I , Pope Damasus I , or Pope Hormisdas ) but reflecting the views of the Roman Church by that period , the Council of Rome in 382 AD under Pope Damasus I ( 366 -- 383 ) assembled a list of books of the Bible . Damasus commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin . This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible , in the fourth century AD ( although Jerome expressed in his prologues to most deuterocanonical books that they were non-canonical ) . In 1546 , at the Council of Trent , Jerome 's Vulgate translation was declared by the Roman Catholic Church to be the only authentic and official Bible in the Latin Church . </P>
<P> According to the Latin Decretum Gelasianum ( also known as the Gelasian Decree ) , thought to be of a 6th - century document of uncertain authorship and of pseudepigraphal papal authority ( variously ascribed to Pope Gelasius I , Pope Damasus I , or Pope Hormisdas ) but reflecting the views of the Roman Church by that period , the Council of Rome in 382 AD under Pope Damasus I ( 366 -- 383 ) assembled a list of books of the Bible . Damasus commissioned Saint Jerome to produce a reliable and consistent text by translating the original Greek and Hebrew texts into Latin . This translation became known as the Latin Vulgate Bible , in the fourth century AD ( although Jerome expressed in his prologues to most deuterocanonical books that they were non-canonical ) . In 1546 , at the Council of Trent , Jerome 's Vulgate translation was declared by the Roman Catholic Church to be the only authentic and official Bible in the Latin Church . </P>
when was the final version of the bible created
when was the final version of the bible created
the fourth century AD
the fourth century AD