摘要：The Reformed Religion was brought into Transylvania in 1550 and swiftly adopted by a part of the Hungarian nobility and the urban patriciate. In the inter-war period, after the Greater Union of all the Romanian Provinces on December 1, 1918 the Reformed Church had two Episcopates: the Episcopate of Transylvania and .Piatra Craiului. Episcopate. Major changes in the numerical evolution and territorial distribution of the Reformed Romanian populations were the following: a) a decrease from 710,706 faithful in 1930, to 701,077 in 2002 and to 600,932 in 2011– as a consequence of the general negative natural balance in Romania (ever fewer births) and emigration (mostly after 2007) after the country.s adherence to the European Union. ; b) changes in the distribution of the Calvinist faithful by habitat, from 21 % in the town area of 1930 to some 53 % in 2002, and 50.5% to-day.
