Márton Kálmáncsehi
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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]