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The Unitarian Church of Transylvania
Status: Full Member
Members: 80,000
Ministers: 142, with 31 students in the seminary. Many ministers serve more than one congregation.
Biship: Dr. Arpad Szabo
Founded: 1568 by Francis David
Congregations: More than 125 with settled ministers and about 50 small fellowships, organized into 5 Districts.
Meetings: Worship every Sunday with a tradition of hymns, prayers and sermon in the Hungarian language.
Notes:

Unitarianism began in Transylvania within the liberal wing of the Protestant Reformation in the second half of the 16th century, at the Diet of Torda (1568), when King John Sigismund declared liberty of conscience and religion for the first time, inspired by the preaching of Francis David.

At the end of the 16th century there were 400 congregations.

400 years of persecutions has reduced that number.Most Unitarians live in villages. The headquarters is in Cluj (Koloszvar), the capital of Transylvania.

All Transylvanian Unitarians are ethnic Hungarians.

Contact:

Rev.Kovacs Istvan
4000 ST-Gheorghe
STR Koo's Karoly NR 2
Phone: 0040 267 313813
kovacs.unit@planet.ro

Rev Sandor Mathe
Str Dr V Bares 1
2200 Brasov, Romania
Email: mathes@rdslink.ro

Rev. Szekely Kinga-Reka
461 Petreni, jud Harghita, Romania
Phone: 0788 33 83 64
Email: kinga@rworker.com

Website: unitarius.ro



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