The president said “the unity of the Hungarian nation beyond state borders is our fundamental value”.
President Tamás Sulyok said the survival of the Reformed Hungarian community of Transylvania is “our natural desire as we are also determined by what will happen to the Calvinist congregations.”
Speaking in Cluj Napoca, Romania, at the inauguration of Vilmos Kolumban, the new bishop of the Reformed Diocese of Transylvania, on Saturday, the president said it was important that “these Reformed communities should be alive and strong, and that their members should walk happy, with their heads held high, and that the Hungarians of Transylvania rise again. This may seem like a bold goal in times of secularization, emigration and a demographic crisis, but this is the only path worth taking,” President Sulyok said.
In addition to the institutions created by Gabor Bethlen and other great men of Transylvania, he also highlighted the congregations, as “the scenes of renewal of the Hungarians for more than a thousand years, since in the face of disunity, they are the ones that are able to help each other and those in need, and bring strength and life to the dwindling number of members.”
President Sulyok confirmed that “the unity of the Hungarian nation beyond state borders is our fundamental value”; therefore, he called it an important task to “deal with the communities living in the homeland and to find out how we can improve each other’s fate so that our communities remain unshakable”.
