„…igazán nincsen értelme az esperességnek.” Bakó László szegedi református esperes lemondatása 1951-ben

Absztrakt

In 1948–49, the increasingly powerful Rákosi dictatorship succeeded in shackling the Reformed Church: the „disobedient” bishops were forced to resign. Following this, the removal of deans and pastors who opposed the communist regime began. One of the victims of this purge was László Bakó, the deacon and pastor of Szeged. His „crime” was his insistence on exercising the remaining rights of the church. His removal was orchestrated by two individuals: László Óvári, the county senior officer of the State Office for Church Affairs, and János Péter, the bishop of Debrecen. László Bakó was not only forced to resign from his position as deacon, but also had to leave his pastoral post. He was exiled from Szeged and was not allowed to move back even before his death.