The area borders on several Eastern European countries, and is home to various ethnic groups, including Romanians, Hungarians, Slovaks and Ukrainians.
The SCRC is regarded as the oldest Protestant community in Ukraine, with the first group of Reformers arriving in Sub-Carpathia in the 1530s.
[2] The Church promoted the establishment of three specialized secondary schools (with teaching of additional religious and theological subjects), operates 80 Sunday schools, has its special charitable foundation, and publishes a quarterly journal Mission (with 500 copies circulation).
[4] Leaders and members of the Sub-Carpathian Reformed Church were persecuted by the communist authorities in the Soviet Union and were sent to Gulag labour camps in Siberia.
[3] By some estimations, 40,000 persons from Sub-Carpathia perished between Fall 1944 (when the Soviet Army invaded the territory) and 1956.