Márton Kálmáncsehi

Márton Kálmáncsehi Sánta, also known as Martin Kálmáncsehi (Kálmáncsehi Sánta Márton; Kálmáncsa, 1500 – Debrecen, December 1550),^{[citation needed]} was the first pastor to publicly preach Calvinist ideas in Hungary (in the 1540s).^[1] He began his church career as a canon at the Roman Catholic Diocese of Transylvania.^[1] He studied the theological works of Philip Melanchthon and Heinrich Bullinger.^[2] He succeeded the prominent reformator, Mátyás Dévai Bíró, as the Protestant town pastor of Debrecen in 1551.^[3]

Bust of Kálmáncsehi in Debrecen