IRCA Eastern Europe contact person: ILONA SZOKACS NAGY (email)

Rev. Ilona Szokacs Nagy, Secretary for IRCA Eastern Europe

Ilona is a Romanian Reformed minister with experience in parish ministry, pastoral care, and ecumenical and intercultural dialogue. Since 2000, she has served in different contexts within the Hungarian Reformed Church in Romania, including Bucharest and Moldova. Since 2007, she has served as minister of a rural congregation in Bârghiș, Transylvania.

Her ministry includes preaching, Bible studies, pastoral counselling, leading worship and religious celebrations, as well as developing youth and community programmes. She has a particular interest in ecumenism and in creating opportunities for dialogue and cooperation between people of different Christian traditions, cultures and religious backgrounds. Her theological education, pastoral experience, and commitment to ecumenical and intercultural dialogue have shaped her conviction that empathy, mutual understanding and genuine encounter are essential for Christian witness and for building peaceful and inclusive communities.

Rev Márk László Gyula, Representative for the Hungarian Churches in Romania and Consultant.

Rev. Márk László Gyula is a Transylvanian Reformed pastor and a member of the European branch of IRCA since 2010, who has already served as a speaker at several IRCA conferences or participated as a member. He serves in Eastern Europe – Romania, in one of the Hungarian Reformed churches belonging to the Transylvanian Reformed Church District. He also served in a rural environment for several years. 

The father of 2 daughters, he has served as a pastor for 27 years, and he has always been interested in rural church service and improving the quality of service and life of pastors serving in the countryside. He is open to learning and discovering new things, as well as to ecumenical relationships. He considers the service of Christ, the commitment to the service of other people, to be an important task.