The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)
ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHIVES - The Archives of the Hungarian Calvinist Church by Erzsébet Horváth, István Szabadi, Márk Szentimrei, József Hadi, Edit Nagy
ERZSÉBET HORVÁTH, ISTVÁN SZABADI, MÁRK SZENTIMREI, JÓZSEF HUDI, EDIT NAGY THE ARCHIVES OF CALVINIST CHURCH T he Hungarian Calvinist Church maintains five archives that have very significant material of source. Along with them the archives of the existing dioceses are also important. Of course there is much valuable historical material at each of the congregation. In this publication we are only able to deal with the five big Calvinist archives. THE SYNODICAL ARCHIVES OF THE HUNGARIAN CALVINIST CHURCH The general convent made its first decision about establishing the convent archives in 1821 and wished to place it in Calvinist parish of Pest. The archives have worked in Budapest after a variegated past since 1951 at 8. Kálvin square. The exact collection area of the archives and its tasks were already determined at its establishing and which were confirmed in 1952, 1954 and 1969. National organizations, institutions, associations and data of prominent people belong to its collection area. Despite every regulation and decree, order - considering registration and process of the given data in the former archival list - certain documents of national interests remained in their original places. The life, location and name of the archives have always been influenced by the organizational changes. The name of Convent Archives was changed into Central Archives of the Hungarian Calvinist Church in 1964 when the Universal Convent was abolished. A new verdict of the Synodical Presidency gave the name of Synodical Archives of Hungarian Calvinist Church in 1970. The Synodical Archives' listing was formed among the Hungarian Archives as the followings: according to the decree-law 29 of 1950 of Presidium of the Hungarian People's Republic. It became private archives of national interests, it was declared to be professional archives upon the decree-law 27 of 1969 in 1970 and it was ordered to be open private archives upon 30,31 and 35. section of the Act LXVI of 1995. The Synodical Archives of MRE (HungarianCalvinistChurch-the translator)
