Hungarian Reformed Communion

The Hungarian Reformed Church or Hungarian Reformed Communion is a global fellowship of continental Reformed denominations historically related to the Reformed Church of Hungary.
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.

History

From the Dissolution of Austria-Hungary, after the First World War, the members of the Reformed Church of Hungary were spread over several countries. In each of these, Hungarian reformeds organized themselves as a new national denomination.
On May 22, 2009, 6 of the Hungarian Reformed denominations decided to form a Hungarian Reformed Communion, also called the Hungarian Reformed Church.
In the same year, the Hungarian Reformed Church in America joined the organization.
In 2013, the Reformed Christian [Calvinist Church in Croatia] was accepted as a member.
In 2019, the Calvin Synod (United Church of Christ) was accepted as a member and in 2024, the Hungarian Reformed Church in Australia also joined.

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.
Likewise, they differ from the other reformed denominations in that they call those responsible for a church jurisdiction "bishop".

Communion members are: