The Protestant Reformation had spread rapidly in…

1564 CE to 1575 CE

The Protestant Reformation had spread rapidly in Transylvania after Hungary's collapse, and the region becomes one of Europe's Protestant strongholds.

Transylvania's Germans adopt Lutheranism, and many Hungarians convert to Calvinism.

However, the Protestants, who print and distribute catechisms in the Romanian language, fail to lure many Romanians from Orthodoxy.

In 1571 the Transylvanian Diet approves a law guaranteeing freedom of worship and equal rights for Transylvania's four "received" religions: Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and Unitarian.

The law is one of the first of its kind in Europe, but the religious equality it proclaims is limited.

Orthodox Romanians, for example, are free to worship, but their church is not recognized as a received religion.

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Alba Iulia Alba Romania View →

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Transylvania, region of View → Hungarian people View → Romanians View → Christians, Eastern Orthodox View → Christians, Roman Catholic View → Saxons, Transylvanian View → Székelys View → Moldavia, Principality of View → Wallachia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View → Union of Three Nations View → Transylvania (Hungarian governate) View → Turkish people View → Ottoman Empire View → Lutheranism View → Protestantism View → Hungary, Royal View → Habsburg Monarchy, or Empire View → Calvinists View → Hungary (Transylvania), Ottoman vassal Kingdom of View → Moldavia (Ottoman vassal), Principality of View →

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Protestant Reformation View →

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Conflict View → Faith View → Government View → Custom and Law View →

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