Unitarian Church of Transylvania Unitarian Church of Transylvania The Unitarian Church of Transylvania (; ) is a church of the Unitarian denomination, based in the city of Cluj, Transylvania, Romania. Founded in 1568 in the Principality of Transylvania, it has a majority-Hungarian following, and is one of the 18 religious confessions given official recognition by the Romanian state. The Transylvanian and Hungarian Unitarians represent the only branch of Unitarianism not to have adopted a congregationalist polity, and remains quasi-episcopal; the Irish Non-subscribing Presbyterian Church, a distinct body closely related to Unitarianism, has a presbyterian structure. The Unitarian Church of Transylvania is administrated by a
1537 Transylvania the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Transylvania is also the birthplace of the discoverer Gyula Strommer (1920–1995). "Transylvania" was his only minor-planet discovery. The official naming citation was published by the Minor Planet Center on 1 February 1980 (). 1537 Transylvania 1537 Transylvania, provisional designation , is a carbonaceous asteroid and long-lost minor planet from the outer regions of the asteroid belt, approximately 17 kilometers in diameter. Discovered by Gyula Strommer in 1940, it was later named after region of Transylvania, where the discoverer was born. "Transylvania" was discovered on 27 August 1940, by Hungarian astronomer Gyula Strommer at the Konkoly Observatory near