### accepted religion (Latin religio recepta) Official religion of public bodies accepted by the state. However, legal acceptance does not necessarily mean that accepted religions had equal rights. In royal Hungary the following religions had equal rights: Catholic, Lutheran (from 1608 and from 1647) and Calvinist, although these latter ones did not have the same rights as the Catholic religion, so in reality they were accepted only from 1781 and 1791. In the Transylvanian principality there were the following accepted religions: Catholic from 1568 (with several restrictions in law), Lutheran, Calvinist and Unitarian. The four accepted religions in Transylvanian were acknowledged by the Habsburg empire in the 18th century. In Hungary the Greek Orthodox faith was accepted in 1791, the Unitarian in 1848, and the Jewish faith in 1895. Besides these there were tolerated religions (religio tolerata), such as the Greek Orhtodox religion in the Transylvanian principality, and from 1895 the new, legally accepted religions (which are not the same as accepted religions, but they had more restricted rights). It was primarily smaller Protestant communities and Islamic groups which belonged to this category. MA