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What is your point?

There were lists. There were circulated among different regions. Nothing official though.

That is correct. There was no official list until the Council of Trent.

You seem to not understand how things are defined in the Church. A definition is not given until a definition is needed.

Officially? When the need arose due to those who used the Bible as a tool for division - The Council of Trent.

For the West, then.

The number of books were not in the OP. For the Church.

It was decided by those in authority to decide such things. If those in authority did not accept them, they were not accepted. And for this discussion, let's focus on the New Testament. On those those books we both agree are 27.

Yes, but it was the Church that decided which books belonged. There is NO inspired table of contents.

Let us turn to Eusebius for clarification shall we... "One epistle of Peter, that called the first, is acknowledged as genuine. And this the ancient elders used freely in their own writings as an undisputed work. But we have learned that his extant second Epistle does not belong to the...