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

started, the documents arising from other congregations and of Calvinist and Protestant congregations from after World War I. We can follow the inner and outer mission and social activity of our Calvinist Church in the 19

th and 20

th century in the material of the archives. Documents of significant politicians are also held in our archives. These people usually used to be clergy people with high dignitary. People like the Prime Minister István Tisza and the Minister of Justice, Jenő Balogh. Most of the journals of the Minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs got into our archives as well. The documents of important people, who used to work in different parts of our church, can be researched in our archives. They are listed into more than twenty fonds. The archives also have a fragmented material of pressmatter. The convent and synodical documents arising after 1945 arrived at our institution fragmented so the archives is only able to give partial material to the researchers. Beside the fact that the Synodical Archives of MRE tends to fulfil its basic professional task, it started making microfilms of the most important documents, digitizing the written material it published the repertory of its written material and the journals of István Burián as a source publication. With this the archives intend to help both protection and treatment and also to help researchers' work. THE ARCHIVES OF THE CALVINIST CHURCH DISTRICT AND COLLEGE EAST OF THE RIVER TISZA The supporter and adjudicative power of the Archives is the Calvinist Diocese East of the River Tisza. It came into being on the base of different written material collections, (those of episcope, convent, college, big library, diocesan, congregation). It is called the 'archives' of some church authorities, institutions, dioceses, parishes by the traditional church terminology Its task is to collect significant documents on the history of the church, culture, historical events of national interest. So preservation documents certificating legal condition has been continuous since the Reformation. Documents were guarded by bishops, their assistants or the notaries in the church districts in the 16

th and 17

th century. The collected documents at the College were taken care of by student officers after the Reformation, mainly by seniors. They not only guarded the material that they took over from their predecessors but they also added their own collection to be able to give them over to their successors. At the beginning it happened together with the material of the library. The documents were placed in the decenal office in the