What do you mean “Catholic Church codified the books of the Bible?” You mean the CC wrote the Bible?
The Old Testament Septuagint was written by Jews. It is the version of the Old Testament which Jesus used. The Catholic Church uses the Septuagint version of the Old Testament. It includes those books which Protestants call “Apocrypha”.
The New Testament was written by Catholics. Sts. Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Paul, Peter, James, and Jude were all Catholic Bishops. St. Peter was the first Pope.
The Apostles, however, did not codify the Bible. It was not until the Third Century, that St. Jerome sorted out all the books which were claimed to be canonical and put them in the Latin Vulgate. It is this Latin Vulgate, which the Catholic Church declared canonical in the Council of Trent, 12 Centuries later.
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