The City of Cluj and the Protestant Reformation of the 16th Century

The ideas of the Reformation reached Transylvania immediately after the year 1517 and were embraced by the Saxons in the form of Lutheranism (with its center at Sibiu), and by the Hungarian nobility in the form of Calvinism (with its center at Cluj). The new denominations organized their structures and received official recognition between 1542 and 1571. The Unitarian (Anti-Trinitarian) ideas began to spread out of Cluj in 1565, and by the end of that decade the city had become the main center of this denomination. Nowadays, Cluj remains a cosmopolitan, multiethnic and multiconfessional city, home to three Protestant bishoprics, an Orthodox Metropolitan See, a Greek-Orthodox eparchy, and a Roman-Catholic vicarage, while hosting a university (founded in the year 1581) with for faculties of theology.