Fraternity-Testvériség, 1961 (39. évfolyam, 1-12. szám)

1961-05-01 / 5. szám

FRATERNITY

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instruction. Thus all self-government was taken from the Hungarian Reformed Church and in its

Emeric Revesz

Leader of Religious Resistance

place the Austrian government directed every facet of its life. To make any representations to Vienna at all was most difficult. The four bishops could not even meet to confer on a course of action, as such a meeting would constitute an illegal ecclesiastical court. In 1854, however, Archduke Albrecht restored a good many of the rights of the Church that had been taken away. Kirk Sessions were now to be allowed to meet without government representatives being present, but all other courts of the Church were to secure a permit before they could be summoned, and had to have a government representative at their