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

assembly of the parish in 1769 significant material of source value relating to dioceses and parishes got into the archives. (Records about church visits, statistics, wealth registration, agreement in writing concerning fees, deeds of foundation) Treatment of the documents of the dioceses and parishes started in 1860. Upon Imre Révész's Sen work in 1868 not only dioceses but parishes owning great quantity of archival material registered their documents. A new impulse was given by the instructions of the universal convent issued in the 1930s. The Archival Manual in 1938 meant a step forward in professional and practical questions in the case of Calvinist church archives. Systematization of the work was stopped by World War II. National control began in the Calvinist church archives upon the state laws after 1945 and the work of the Hungarian Calvinist Collection Council. Registration of the archival material was finished in the 1950s. On the decision of the general assembly of the Calvinist Church District east of the River Tisza on 13

th December 1951 the archives of the diocese and college were unified and a new archival regulation was introduced. So the 'Archives of Calvinist Diocese east of the river Tisza' as a collection archives of national interest started its operation on 1st January 1952. After the reorganization of the archives, because of the damages of World War II, mainly the material of diocese and only the endangered documents from the church districts got into the archives. Upon the decree no. 27 of 1969 the Minister of Culture declared with his decree 95 229/1969 XVIII the Archives of Calvinist Church District east of the River Tisza as church special archives. Act LXVI of 1995 today it is open private archives. THE ARCHIVES OF THE CALVINIST CHURCH DISTRICT AND COLLEGE WEST OF THE RIVER TISZA The archives are the collection of the documents of the Calvinist Church District Archives west of the River Tisza, its diocese and its parishes and the Calvinist College of Sárospatak. According to the saying the establishment of the Calvinist College of Sárospatak was in 1531. We do not know anything about forming of the socalled 'old archives' but it is for sure that the president of the students' board was responsible for taking care of and maintaining the documents case. It turns out from the laws of 1621 and records that the archives of the College consisted of three bigger parts: documents ensuring rights, correspondence