The Canon of Christian Scripture, as approved by the Church at the Council of Rome in A.D. 382 and reaffirmed at the Councils of Hippo in A.D. 393, Carthage in A.D. 397, II Nicæa in A.D. 787, Florence in A.D. 1442, Trent in A.D. 1546, contains 46 books in the Old Testament and 27 in the New Testament. I haven’t found one reference anywhere that have these books removed from the cannon.
Jesus and the disciples used the Septuagint which was the Canon of the Diaspora/Essenes. We know this because it is quoted in the New Testament. This Canon continued to be the Canon of Christians until after the Reformation and, in fact until about 125 years ago.
Your information is incomplete as well as inaccurate.
First, The Catholic Church which uses the Apocrypha and considers them inspired acknowledges they did not set a canon until after the Reformation.
Second, The Catholic Encyclopedia says: The "
Protocanonical (are) those sacred writings which
have been always received by Christendom without dispute.
The protocanonical books of the Old Testament
correspond with those of the Bible of the Hebrews, and
the Old Testament as received by Protestants."
AND
"[The
deuterocanonical (deuteros, "second") are those whose Scriptural character
was contested in some quarters,"
The Catholic Church admits the Apocrypha were not always universally accepted.
Third, Even Jerome who was asked by the Pope to translate the Scriptures into Latin did not consider the Apocrypha inspired. Jerome included a disclaimer on the seven extra books:
Jerome stated, "
As the Church reads the books of Judith and Tobit and Maccabees but
does not receive them among the canonical Scriptures, so also it reads Wisdom and Ecclesiasticus for the edification of the people,
not for the authoritative confirmation of doctrine." Jerome(340-420) - Jerome's preface to the books of Solomon.
Forth, There is no evidence Jesus or the Apostle's ever quoted the Apocrypha
Finally, the seven extra books remained in the Bible even after the Reformation. Martin Luther appended them the same as Jerome had done, separating them from the inspired Scriptures and included his own disclaimer:
Luther said, "
These books are not held equal to the Scriptures, but are useful and good to read.”
The seven Apocrypha books were eventually removed from Protestant Bibles due to high printing costs. If costs needed to be cut, it made sense to cut non-inspired books and keep the divinely inspired writings intact.
Ginger