The Hungarian Reformed Church (HRC) or Hungarian Reformed Communion (Hungarian: Magyar Refomátus Egyház) is a global fellowship of continental Reformed denominations historically related to the Reformed Church of Hungary.[1][2]
The purpose of the organization is to maintain unity among Hungarian Reformed churches in different countries and to give joint representation of denominations in international organizations of Reformed denominations.[3]
From the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, after the First World War, the members of the Reformed Church of Hungary were spread over several countries.[4] In each of these, Hungarian retirees organized themselves as a new national denomination.[5][6]
On May 22, 2009, 6 of the Hungarian Reformed denominations decided to form a Hungarian Reformed Fellowship, also called the Hungarian Reformed Church.[1][2]
All denominations part of the communion subscribe to the Second Helvetic Confession and Heidelberg Catechism as a faithful expression of biblical doctrines, such as the Reformed Church of Hungary.[7]
Likewise, they differ from the other reformed denominations in that they call those responsible for a church jurisdiction "bishop".[7]
Communion members are:[1]