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

Back facade of Debrecen Calvinist College holds its written material in ninety-two fonds which means about 1500 linear metres. The stock includes the documents of universal convocation, Convent and documents of administrative and other committees of Synodical Office. The oldest convent documents are from 1793 and from this year the documents of convent meetings can be found organized. Reports and registers about Hungarian Calvinist Church districts, their dioceses and congregation are very important. They were prepared from the year of 1894. There can be found registers not only from the territory of Hungary but from the areas that got over the border. They are both in the mentioned documents and among the ones of the Taxation Committee (Fond 2.g.) Very important ones are the documents of the educational, foreign affairs and financial committees. In these documents we can follow the life of the Calvinist Church between the two World Wars. We can see the reorganization of congregational life, way of help, organization of army chaplain and their work on the reannexed areas. The material of Debrecen convocation from 1881 and their festive publications are very important, which were signed by Francis Joseph and Ágoston Trefort. The Archives also collect the material of associations, organizations and institutions of national interest e. g. documents of the second half of the 1800s when the religious revival The entrance of Debrecen Calvinist Collég