Bela Sörös

* Nemespécsely, March 14, 1877 – † Losonc, October 2, 1939 / Reformed bishop, founder of the Losonc theological seminary; ; A significant figure in Czech/Slovak Hungarian public life between the two world wars. He studied theology in Kolozsvár, Pápa, Budapest and Edinburgh. He was the pastor of the Budapest collective prison for five years, then from 1906 he was the pastor of Losonc. In 1921 he was elected chief notary of the church district on the Danube, in 1938 he was elected bishop of the church district, and in 1939 he was elected a regular member of the synod. He was also the founder, director and partly the maintainer of the Reformed theological seminary launched in Losonc in 1925. He played a major role in the reorganization of the Reformed church in Czechoslovakia after the coup d'état. He was the editor-in-chief of the church social newspaper Összefogás and of Felsőnógrád. During his episcopate, he launched the movement called Reformed Összefogás and the monthly newspaper of the same name. ; ; His main works: ; History of the Hungarian liturgy I., 1904, ; The creed of the Reformed Church Council of Losonc, 1917.