The books of The Bible that are accepted by a church. The Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant churches each have slightly different lists of books of the Bible that they accept as canonical.
They are simply described as non-canonical books.
APOCRYPHA
Apocrypha
No - the Apocryphal books are non-canonical, that is, they are not part of the Protestant Bible.
Homolegoumena refers to texts or books that are universally admitted as authoritative within a particular religion or canon. In Christianity, for example, the New Testament books that are considered homolegoumena are those that are universally accepted by all major Christian groups.
The Apocrypha are several books not accepted by all Christians. The Deuterocanon is a subset of Apocrypha used by the Catholic Church, that include all but 3 of the Apocrypha of the 1611 King James Bible.
I'm not sure what you are asking, but there are some disagreements over the Canonical status of certain books in the New Testament between the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and certain Protestant churches.Martin Luther declared the book of James as noncanonical and excluded it from his German translationThere seems to have been some debate over the Canonical status of the book of Revelation in the Orthodox church
The first 6 books of the Bible are pretty good history books; but see also related answers for the next 5 books.The canonical Historical Books include Joshua through Ester in the Old Testament.
Catholics believe in what Protestants call the Apocrypha. However, Catholics do not call these books the Apocrypha, they are the Deuterocanonical Scriptures because they are the Word of God, and have been since the 4 century B.C. The Apocrypha are those books which were not accepted into the Canon- attached below is a complete list of the Apocrypha.
Here are some examples:"Although the Gospel According to Thomas is not one of the canonical books in the New Testament, it can give us some insights into the life of Jesus.""Mark and Jasper played basketball according to the most formal, canonical rules, ignoring all of the local idiosyncrasies and exceptions others embraced.""Eating popcorn in the movie theatre is essential, almost canonical: it just would not be a night out without that salty and buttery snack!"
"Everyone found the guidelines for the tournament canonical."
The word 'canonical' does not mean 'authentic' or genuine'. It simply means that they are considered authoritive, standard or accepted. There are numerous other gospels that could be equally authentic or inauthentic, but which are not accepted as standard New Testament gospels.