<P> The deuterocanonical books ( from the Greek meaning `` belonging to the second canon '' ) is a term adopted in 16th century by the Roman Catholic Church to denote those books and passages of the Christian Old Testament , as defined in 1546 by the Council of Trent , that were not found in the Hebrew Bible . The term distinguished these texts both from those that were termed protocanonical books , which were the books of the Hebrew canon ; and from the apocryphal books , which were those books of Jewish origin that were known sometimes to have been read in church as scripture but which the Council considered not to be canonical . </P>
when were 7 books removed from the bible
1546