Evangelical Church District for Cisdanubia

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The Evangelical Church District for Cisdanubia ( ung . Dunáninneni evangélikus egyházkerület ) was one of the four historical church districts of the former Hungarian Evangelical Church AB , which split into different churches after 1918.

introduction

After the Peace of Vienna in 1606 between Stephan Bocskai and Emperor Rudolph II, in which the imperial family had assured the Kingdom of Hungary constitutional and denominational equality, i.e. religious freedom , the Palatine of Hungary Georg Thurso convened a synod in Sillein in 1610 . The Lutheran pastor of Großbitsch (ung. Nagybiccse), Elias Lányi , (he was confessor and court preacher Georg Thursos), was the driving force behind the convocation of this synod. In this synod the Hungarian Church of the Augsburg Confession was organized for the first time in the Kingdom of Hungary. New church laws were passed and three church districts were established.

One of the three church districts was the church district of Großbitsch , which included the counties of Arwa , Liptov and Trenčín . Elias Lányi was appointed as the first superintendent for him . From this district later the Evangelical Church District for Cisdanubia developed - with the acquisition of further territories.

history

As early as the Synod of Rosenberg in 1707, a new draft for the administrative structure of the Evangelical Church according to the Augsburg Confession in the Kingdom of Hungary was drawn up. This proposal of the Synod of Rosenberg was in 1734 by the Resolutio Carolina of the Emperor Charles VI. approved. The territory of the Kingdom of Hungary was divided into four church districts (districts) under canon law, each of which was headed first by a superintendent and later by an evangelical bishop . The Evangelical Church District for Cisdanubia (this side of the Danube ) roughly covered the north-western part of the former Kingdom of Hungary (see map).

Protestant seniorates (with a senior at the top) were subordinate to the respective church district . The seniorate consisted of the individual parishes.

Up to 1783 the following senior councils belonged to the district: Pressburg , Trenčín - Neutra , Turz , Liptau-Arwa

Seniorate 1783 - 1894: Pressburg-Stadt , Pressburg-Land, Neutra, Trenčín, Arwa and Liptov

Seniorate 1894 - 1918: Pressburg-Stadt, Pressburg-Land, Neutra, Trenčín, Neograd , Wieselburg , Hont , Bars , Komorn .

The church district of Cidanubia included:

  • 1735 15 parishes
  • 1791 72 parishes
Districts of the Hungarian Evangelical Church AB in the Kingdom of Hungary

In 1894 a national synod of the Hungarian Evangelical Church AB took place in Budapest , where the territories of the individual church districts were also changed. As a result of this change, the number of parishes that belonged to the Cisdanubia church district increased from 99 to 163.

In 1918, at the end of the First World War , the historic Kingdom of Hungary was dissolved as a state. According to the Treaty of Trianon , Hungary had to cede around two thirds of its territory to the newly founded successor states. This also had serious effects on the Hungarian Evangelical Church AB. Accordingly, after 1918, of the original 163 parishes, only 33 parishes in the church district of Cisdanubia remained in post-war Hungary. Together with the parishes of the other church districts that remained with Hungary, they now formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary . The parishes in Burgenland, which fell to the Republic of Austria , now formed the Evangelical Superintendentur AB Burgenland within the Evangelical Church AB in Austria . The greater part of the church district came to the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia .

Cisdanubia was initially maintained as a church district in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary, but was completely dissolved in 1952.

Superintendents (later bishops)

(The duration of the respective service period is given in brackets)

  • Jakob Záborsky (1735 to 1736), court preacher of the noble Révay family in Kisselmec
  • Elias Mohl (1737 to 1761), preacher of the German Evangelical Church Community AB in Modern
  • Michael Torkos (1761 to 1801), preacher of the German Evangelical Church Community AB in Modern
  • Daniel von Crudy (1802 to 1815), preacher of the German Evangelical Church Community AB in Pressburg
  • Michael Kováč-Martini (1816 to 1828), preacher of the Slovak Evangelical Church Community AB in Modern
  • Paul Bilnitza (1829 to 1834), preacher of the Slovak Evangelical Congregation AB in Preßburg and professor at the Preßburger Ev. Lyceum
  • Franz Samuel Stromsky (1835 to 1861), preacher of the German Evangelical Church Community AB in Preßburg
  • Ludwig Geduly (1861 to 1890), preacher of the German Evangelical Church Community AB in Preßburg
  • Friedrich Baltik (1890 to 1919), preacher and senior of the Slovak Evangelical Church Community AB in Liptau Sankt Nikolaus and Balassagyarmat

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References and comments

  1. ↑ a b The senior council came to the Tisza district in 1895
  2. ^ Tibor Fabiny : History of the Lutheran Church in Hungary
  3. ↑ According to other information, he should have died as early as 1735.
  4. ↑ The Révays are an old Hungarian noble family whose roots go back to the 13th century.
  5. ↑ Stromsky was suspended as superintendent in 1850 because of his participation in the Hungarian Revolution and the subsequent freedom struggle of 1848/1849 . A ten year vacancy followed. He was only reintroduced into office in 1860.