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"Vulgate" is a late fourth-century Bible translations into Latin/Latin translation of the Bible that became, during the 16th century, the Catholic Church's officially wikt:promulgate/promulgated Latin version of the Bible.

The translation was largely the work of Jerome/St. Jerome, who, in 382, was commissioned by Pope Damasus I to revise the ("Old Latin") collection of Biblical texts in Latin then in use by the Church. Once published, it was widely adopted and eventually eclipsed the and, by the 13th century, was known as the ""  (the "version commonly-used") or, more simply, in Latin as or in Greek language/Greek as ("Vulgate").

It was made the Catholic Church's official Latin Bible as a consequence of the Council of Trent (1545–63).