Unitarian Universalist Partner Church Council

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Partnerships in 1922 with Transylvanian Churches

Read about the origins of partnership with Transylvania

1922 #
on AUA list

1922 Transylvanian Sister Churches with Current and Former Partners

	Transylvanian Church	2007 UU Partner Church	1922 (AUA) Unit. Sister Church
1.	Kolozsvar I Kolozsvar II Kolozsvar III	King’s Chapel, Boston MA First & Second, Boston MA First Unit., San Francisco CA	King’s Chapel, Boston MA
2.	Kolozs	Nantucket MA Martha’s Vineyard MA	Community Church, New York NY
3.	Szovata	San Rafael CA	Taunton MA
4	Kide	-----	Watertown MA
5	Torda	Weston MA	Brookline MA
6	Torocko	Wellesley Hills MA	Portland ME
7	Torockoszentgyorgy	Bellevue WA West Seattle UU Fellowship	Philadelphia PA
8	Abrudbanya	-----	Germantown PA
9	Verespatak	-----	Worcester MA
10	Bagyon	West Shore, Cleveland OH	Augusta ME
11.	Kovend	First Universalist, Denver CO	Meadville PA
12.	Aranyosrakos	Toledo OH	Toledo OH
13.	Varfalva	Devon PA	Waltham MA
14.	Szentmihalyfalva? Felsoszentmihaly? Szekelyszentmihaly ?	Lexington MA ----	North Easton MA
15.	Sinfalva	Morristown NJ	Westwood & West Roxbury MA
16.	Meszko	Boise ID	Lynn MA
17.	Csegez	Lynchburg VA	Wellesley Hills MA
18.	Alsojara	Reading MA	Second Church, Boston MA
19.	Tordatur	----	Church of Disciples, Boston MA
20.	Szind	Macomb IL	Second Church, Salem MA
21.	Komjatszeg	Cedar Rapids IA	Newburyport MA
22.	Petrozseny	Carrollton TX Goleta CA	Cambridge MA
23.	Lupeny	Burlington VT Hartford CT	All Souls, New York NY
24.	Adamos	Franklin MA	First, Salem MA
25.	Bethlenszentmiklos	Fort Collins CO	Concord NH
26.	Desfalva	Belmont MA	Baltimore MD
27.	Dicsoszentmarton	Bethesda MD	Weston MA
28.	Magyarszentbenedek	-----	Marlboro MA
29.	Haranglab	Bridgewater MA	Day, St. Louis MO
30.	Kukullodombo	Charleston SC	Cincinnati OH
31.	Kukulloszeplak	-----	Winchester MA
32.	Szokefalva	Albany NY	Exbridge MA
33.	Segesvar	Arlington VA	Milton MA
34.	Szabed	Charlotte NC	West Upton MA
35.	Marosvasarhely I Marosvasarhely I Marosvasarhely I and II	Winchester, MA Schenectady NY North Andover MA	First Church, Boston MA
36.	Nyaradszentlaszlo	St. John’s, Cincinnati OH	Quincy MA
37.	Csokfalva	First Unit., St. Louis MO	Detroit MI
38.	Nyaradszentmarton	Eliot Chapel, Kirkwood MO	Arlington Street, Boston MA
39.	Nyaradgalfalva	All Souls, Kansas City MO	Chestnut Hill MA
40	Vadad	----	Meeting House Hill, Boston MA
41.	Szekelykal	Urbana IL	San Francisco CA
42.	Nyomat	Lexington KY	Newport RI
43.	Iszlo	Raleigh NC	So. Cong. Church, Boston MA
44.	Szentharomsag	Alexandria VA	Buffalo NY
45.	Ikland	Melrose MA	Belmont MA
46.	Bozod(ujfalu)	Jacksonville FL)	Wollaston MA
47.	Bozodkorispatak	Corvallis OR	Rochester NY
48.	Firtosvaralja	Wenatchee WA Blaine WA	Medford MA
49.	Martonos	----	Syracuse NY
50.	Gsehetvalva	----	Arlington MA
51.	Tarcsafalva	Greenfield MA	Beverly MA
52.	Tordatfalva	Ames IA	New Bedford MA
53.	Kadacs	Norwell MA	Louisville KY
54.	Szentmiklos Gyergyszentmiklos? Szekelyszentmiklos?	Emerson, Houston MA ----	Newton Centre MA
55.	Medeser	Black Mountain NC	Burlington VT
56.	Kede	Marietta GA	Channing Church, Newton MA
57.	Gagy	Plainfield NJ (may drop)	Lowell MA
58.	Szentabraham	Montclair NJ	Woburn MA
59.	Csekefalva	Hopedale MA	Dedham MA
60.	Szekelykeresztur	Concord MA	Montreal PQ
61.	Fiatfalva	River Road, Bethesda MD	Portland OR
62.	Ujszekely	Newburyport MA	Fitchburg MA
63.	Nagysolymos	Shaker Heights OH	Fall River MA
64.	Magyarzsakod	Rockville MD	Concord MA
65.	Pipe	Wayland MA	Harvard and Needham MA
66.	Bordos	East Norwich NY	First, Hingham MA
67.	Sard ?		Lancaster PA
68.	Abasfalva	Bedford MA	Third, Hingham MA
69.	Gyepes	Yarmouth ME	Indianapolis IN
70.	Szekelyderzs	Cherry Hill NJ	Oakland CA
71.	Homorodkaracsonyfalva	Northampton MA	Jamaica Plain MA
72.	Homorodkemenyfalva	Swampscott MA	Leominster MA
73.	Homorodszentmarton	San Jose CA	Montclair NJ
74.	Homorodszentpeter	St. Paul MN	Lexington MA
75.	Homorodujfalu	Kensington CA	Berkeley CA
76.	Kenos	Second, Chicago IL Springfield IL Decatur IL	St. Paul MN
77.	Szekelyudvarhely I Szekelyudvarhely I Szekelyudvarhely II	Northwest UU, Atlanta GA UUCA, Atlanta GA Paradise Valley, AZ	Providence RI
78.	Lokod	Wayzata MN	Minneapolis MN
79.	Muzsna	------	Milwaukee WI
80.	Okland	Oakland CA Athens GA	West Newton MA
81.	(Homorod)Janosfalva	Des Moines IA Iowa City IA Davenport IA	Greenfield MA
82.	Varosfalva	Beverly MA	First Church, Salem MA
83.	Arkos	First Unit., Houston TX Vista CA	Orange NJ
84.	Datk	Naperville IL	Los Angeles CA
85.	Alsorakos	University Unit., Seattle WA	Toronto ON
86.	Szekelyszentmihaly	Milford NH	Arlington St. Ch Alliance, Boston MA
87.	Fogaras	First Unit. Pittsburg PA First Unit. Society, Chicago IL	Pittsburgh PA
88.	Oltheviz	Charlottesville VA	Alliance, Rochester NY
89.	Nagyajta	First Unit., Madison WI	2nd, Brooklyn NY
90.	Szentivanlaborfalva	Sunnyvale CA	New Orleans LA
91.	Sepsiszentgyorgy	First, Brooklyn NY All Souls, Indiannapolis IN Memphis TN	First, Brooklyn NY
92.	Sepsikorospatak	Tampa FL	Schenectady NY
93.	Sepsiszentkiraly	Swampscott MA	Plymouth MA
94.	Kokos	Richmond VA	Fairhaven MA
95.	Brasso I Brasso II	First Unit., San Diego CA Vancouver BC	Cleveland OH
96.	Kalnok	Southold NY	Springfield MA
97.	Magyarsaros	Victoria BC	First and All Souls, Roxbury MA
98	Recsenyed	Bremerton WA	Northampton MA
99.	Alsoboldogfalva	Westport CT	Alliance, Rochester NY

The Origin of Partnership with Transylvania

Excerpted from "A Brief History of the Partner Church Movement "

When WWI ended in 1918, new country boundaries were drawn around Central Europe. It’s hard for us in the United States to imagine that, but that’s what often happened after wars in Europe. At the end of World War I, the eastern part of Hungary (all of Transylvania) was taken from Hungary (which had lost the War) and awarded to Romania. So Transylvania stopped being part of Hungary and became instead the Northern third of Romania. [Find Transylvania on the world map.] All of the Unitarians in Transylvania had been Hungarian citizens and all of them spoke Hungarian.

Unitarians in North America were very concerned about what these huge changes would mean for the Unitarians in Transylvania. They sent two different groups of ministers to investigate and report on the treatment of the Unitarians and other religious minority groups by their new (Romanian) government. The North American Unitarians also set up 100 pairs of congregations and called it "The Sister Church Program." The Sister Church pairs stayed in touch with one another through the 1920's, some lasted into the 1930's despite the Great Depression. But these very first partnerships didn’t last long. The next big war—World War II, in the 1940s—brought communism to the area. The countries of Romania and Hungary kept their boundaries this time, but they were under control of the communist government of the USSR. The people were not free to communicate with their sister churches in the US and many Unitarian churches became run down.

So today’s Partner Church Program is a revival of sorts of a much older program with the same goals: to connect Unitarians and Unitarian Universalists around the world; to share our resources to build friendships and strong congregations.