Dr. Péter Balázs: Guide to the archives of Hungary (Budapest, 1976)

A Tiszántúli Református Egyházkerület Levéltára (Archives of the Transtibiscan Reformed Church District)

A TISZÁNTÚLI REFORMÁTUS EGYHÁZKERÜLET LEVÉLTÁRA (ARCHIVES OF THE TRANSTIBISCAN REFORMED CHURCH DISTRICT) 4044 DEBRECEN, Kálvin tér 16. Tel. 15-980. Director: Dr. László KORMOS The Diocesan Reformed Archives of Nagykunság is working as a branch of the repository. 5331 KENDERES, Lenin u. 37. The Archives have come to being in the middle of the seventeenth century. The first historical mention dates from the 21st January 1664, when the Archives Transfer Commission disposed of the records and the chest of , the archives. The district assembly elected the first archivist on the 20eth April 1773, at the same time it gave the first archival instruction and established the Registry Office. The archivist was in charge of the so-called Superintendent's Archives and the separate Agents' Archives. Prior to 1773 the archives were entrusted to the chief notary. The year 1821 was a milestone in archival history; it was in this year that the Presidency of the church district allotted a room for the Superintendent's and Agents' Archives in the College. So both repositories have come into the College, in the neighbourhood of the Archives of the Reformed College, active in the building. Commissioned by the district assembly, the archivist Pál BUZÁS began the listing of the material of all the three archives in September 1850, and he remained the common archivist of the three institutions for six years. From the 28th August 1856 the Superintendent's, the Agents' and the Collegial Archives continued their life as two archives: the District and College Archives in the College, independently of each other, with self-standing archivists and in separate premises. In 1911 the director of the college library made a proposal to unite the two repositories. He proposed to select a material "of interest for church history" from "the material of the archives housed in the building of the college" and to entrust it to "a common archivist". The unification and the establishment of a united organization happened, however, on the 1st January 1952 only; henceforth the institution works as the "Archives of the Transtibiscan Reformed Church District". The collecting interest of the Archives covers all the dioceses, comprised by the Transtibiscan Reformed Church District, all the congregations in