Fraternity-Testvériség, 1958 (36. évfolyam, 1-11. szám)

1958-04-01 / 4. szám

FRATERNITY

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Dr. Kovasznay is married and the father of one child, Beatrice, born in 1950. He and Mrs. Kovasznay live in Baltimore.

Here, then, is the story of Contract NORD 9951 — the story of how able scientists left posts of stature in their homeland to work unknown in an unpretentious coach house halfway around the world. It is also the story of how they became Americans contributing on a high level to scientific progress in their adopted country. Just how American is perhaps best expressed by one of them after he read this manuscript. “All those things that happened before seem so far away and almost unreal. After all, I am just another American.”

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HUNGARIAN REFORMED CHURCH IN AMERICA ELECTS FIRST BISHOP

The Free Magyar Reformed Church in America held its Sixth Constitutional Assembly recently in Duquesne, Pa., with the Rt. Rev Zoltán Beky, Archdean, and Mr. John Darnay, Chief Elder, presiding. The three constitutional amendments unanimously passed by the Assembly are the following: 1. The name of the denomination was changed from Free Magyar Reformed Church in America to Hungarian Reformed Church in America. 2. Instead of the present office and title of Archdean the

office and title of Bishop was established as clerical president of the denomination. 3. To assist and advise the Bishop a Bishop’s Council was established consisting of eight members, equally ministers and lay-men.

The Hungarian Reformed Church in America holds to the creed and form of government of the mother church, the Reformed Church of Hungary, which had bishops since the very age of the Reformation.

Having a unique system of dual presidency at all levels of church judicatories — Bishop and Chief Elder of the District, Dean (or Senior) and Chief Elder of the Classis, Pastor and Chief Elder of the congregation — the episcopal eminence in the Reformed Church of Hungary is only of jurisdiction, not of order. This pattern was now followed by the Hungarian Reformed Church in America.

The Rt. Rev. Zoltán Beky was unanimously elected and installed as first Bishop. Bishop Beky was born in Hungary in 1903. After studies at the 400-year-old Reformed College at Sárospatak, Hungary, he came to this country in 1929 with scholarships to seminaries in New Brunswick, N. J., and Philadelphia, Pa. He received his B. D. degree at the

Episcopal Seminary in Philadelphia. Soon he was called to become Pastor

of the Hungarian Reformed Church at Trenton, N. J., where he has served ever since. Bishop Beky is a member of the Executive Board of the North American Area Council of the World Alliance of Reformed and Presbyterian Churches, and an Honorary Professor of the Reformed Theological Seminary of Sárospatak, Hungary.

The Free Magyar Reformed Church, now to be known as the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, was received into the membership of the National Council of Churches of Christ at its recent General Assembly in St. Louis, Mo.