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Lelkészképzés a Dél-Erdélyi Református Egyházkerületi Részben
Training ministers in the Reformed Church District of Southern Transylvania

Author(s): Mózes Ambrus
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, History of Church(es), Regional Geography, Recent History (1900 till today), Higher Education , History of Education
Published by: Erdélyi Református Egyházkerület
Keywords: Second Vienna Award; Southern Transylvania; theological institute; training of pastors;

Summary/Abstract: As a consequence of the Second Vienna Award of 30 August 1940, the Transylvanian Reformed Church was split into two parts. Broadly 240 000 Reformed believers in Southern Transylvania came under the jurisdiction of the Romanian state. Bishop János Vásárhelyi and the Council of Church Directors of the Transylvanian Reformed Church entrusted Ferenc Nagy and Count Bálint Bethlen with the task of organising the administration of the congregations in Southern Transylvania. The church also had to decide on how to organise the training of pastors in the South Transylvanian Reformed Church District. In the spring of 1941, a training course was organised for theologians, after which they could complete the theological studies they had begun. In September 1941, the Bethlen Theological Academy in Nagyenyed was opened, with four departments and four full-time teachers.

  • Issue Year: 114/2021
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 709-720
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian
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