# Hungary adopts Act CCVI of 2011, stripping legal status from most churches

Date: 2011

On 30 December 2011 the [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) adopted Act CCVI of 2011 on the right to freedom of conscience and religion and on the legal status of churches, which entered into force in 2012 and deregistered hundreds of recognised churches unless a two-thirds Assembly re-recognised them. The [European Court of Human Rights](/organizations/justice-ecthr) later found against Hungary in Magyar Keresztény Mennonita Egyház and Others. This Fact is that dated church-status statute. It is not the 2011 Fundamental Law taken alone, not a later concordat, and not a personality. Official text sits in the National Legal Database; the ECtHR judgment is the independent file.

## People

- Viktor Orbán: https://factrail.ai/people/viktor-orban

## Drivers

- Illiberal state capture in Hungary: https://factrail.ai/drivers/orban-illiberal-state-capture
- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://commission.europa.eu/document/download/524bd8d4-33ba-4802-891f-d8959831ed5a_en?filename=2025+Rule+of+Law+Report+-+Country+Chapter+Hungary.pdf
- https://www.coe.int/en/web/venice-commission/-/cdl-ad-2012-004-e

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/hu-church-law-2011