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The Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania ((ハンガリー語:Romániai Magyar Baptista Gyülekezetek Szövetsége); (ルーマニア語、モルドバ語():Convenţia Bisericilor Creştine Baptiste Maghiare)) is an organization of ethnic Hungarian Baptists in Romania, united for promoting cooperative ministry. In the 1870s Anton Novak, an Ethnic German colporteur of the British and Foreign Bible Society, began to meet and study the Scriptures with a group of Reformed Christians in Transylvania. In 1875, Heinrich Meyer baptized eight of them and formed them into a church in Salonta Mare. This was the first Baptist church in Transylvania. The Baptist Union of Romania was formed in 1920, but Saxons, Hungarians, and Rusyn-Ukrainians maintained associations to promote their own interests. The ''Recognized Hungarian Baptist Union of Romania'' was founded at Salonta in October 1920. The ''Unrecognized Hungarian Baptist Union of Romania'' was formed around the same time in Nuşfalău. In 1922, the ''Recognized Hungarian Baptist Union'' associated with the ''Baptist Union of Romania'' as a department within it, and also joined the Baptist World Alliance. The two Hungarian Baptist groups united to become the ''Hungarian Baptist Convention of Romania'' in 1935. Government instability and change brought varying challenges to the Baptists of Romania, especially from 1955 to 1989, under the Communist regime. During this time believers were harassed, churches closed, ministers threatened, and educational work prohibited. In 1948, the ''Hungarian Baptist Convention'' was closed. The ''Union of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania'' was organized in Cluj-Napoca on February 3, 1990. In 1996, the name "Union" was changed to "Convention". According to Baptist World Alliance statistics, the Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches had 8,954 members in 247 churches in 2011. The Convention operates as a "sister" denomination to the Baptist Union of Romania and is a member of the European Baptist Federation. ==External links== *(Official website (English) ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches of Romania」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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