John Sigismund Unitarian Highschool
The John Sigismund Unitarian Highschool, located at 9, 21 December Boulevard, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, was a theological school founded in 1557 by the Unitarian Diocese of Transylvania.
Foundation
The Diet of Torda established three schools in the former monasteries of Kolozsvár, Marosvásárhely and Nagyvárad. Queen Isabella, regent for the infant John Sigismund, granted the school in Kolozsvár the annual sum of 100 forints. The then Lutheran Ferenc Dávid was appointed rector but shortly afterwards he converted to Calvinism and then Anti–trinitarianism, and from 1568 Unitarianism. His son-in-law Johann Sommer was moderator of the Academy. In the next generation György Enyedi was moderator of the Academy.Habsburg Rule
When Transylvania fell under Habsburg rule the Diploma Leopoldinum granted the rights of all four received Christian denominations : Catholic, Augustan, Helvetic and Unitarian and a process of re-Catholicisation followed. The building which had been used 1557–1693 for the Unitarian High School was returned to the Jesuits. The school moved to four buildings on the Town Square, nearby St. Michael’s Church which remained in Unitarian hands. However on 6 May 1697 most of Cluj-Napoca was destroyed in major fire - including the School. The school's rector was sent to the Netherlands to raise funds from Unitarian and Arminian supporters. Following the defeat of Francis II Rákóczi, the Catholic church finally regained possession of St. Michael’s Church, and in 1718 the recently rebuilt school buildings on the square. The school relocated to what is today 21 December St.Andrzej Wiszowaty Jr., great-great grandson of Fausto Sozzini, taught at the college 1726-1740, during the period in the 1730s when the Unitarian Church was reorganized and strengthened by Mihály Lombard de Szentábrahám.