Like all people, they had each one his own style, his own emphasis, his own mode of expression, even his own preferences and opinions. These can all be observed in the midst of the broad sweep of their shared Faith, taught by the Apostles, confirmed by their bishops, creeds, synods, councils, and liturgies, which they had in common. It's what they had in common, that comprises the "deposit of faith", their faith "as a whole", "kata holos," called Catholic.
Ealgeone, this is basic. Peace to you. Over and out.
2) Ordinary Magisterium: this second form of Church teaching is continually exercised by the Church especially in her universal practices connected with faith and morals, in the unanimous consent of the Fathers and theologians, in the decisions of the Roman Congregations concerning faith and morals, in the common sense of the Faithful, and various historical documents, in which the faith is declared.
(Definitions from A Catholic Dictionary, 1951)
http://www.catholicessentials.net/magisterium.htm
“I also admit the holy Scriptures , according to that sense which our holy Mother, the Church, has held, and does hold, to whom it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Scripture: neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise, than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers.
http://newspapers.bc.edu/cgi-bin/bostonsh?a=d&d=usci18320427-01.2.2
3. I also admit the holy Scriptures according to that sense which our holy Mother Church has held, and does hold, to which it belongs to judge of the true sense and interpretation of the Scriptures; neither will I ever take and interpret them otherwise than according to the unanimous consent of the Fathers (juxta unanimem consensum Patrum).The Profession of the Tridentine Faith, 1564
https://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/creeds1.vi.iv.html
Furthermore, to check unbridled spirits, it decrees that no one relying on his own judgment shall, in matters of faith and morals pertaining to the edification of Christian doctrine, distorting the Holy Scriptures in accordance with his own conceptions,[5] presume to interpret them contrary to that sense which holy mother Church, to whom it belongs to judge of their true sense and interpretation,[6] has held and holds, or even contrary to the unanimous teaching of the Fathers, even though such interpretations should never at any time be published.
THE COUNCIL OF TRENT Session IV - Celebrated on the eighth day of April, 1546 under Pope Paul III
http://www.ewtn.com/library/councils/trent4.htm
How many do you want?
If you want to call the vote at Trent on the approval of the canon with 24 yeas to 15 nays and 16 abstaining unanimous...well, we have differing definitions of unanimous. But Rome does redefine words at whim.
And we PROTS have enough of that to get to heaven; don't we?