Miklós Lukáts

Miklós Péter Lukáts (27 March 1946 – 30 October 2022) was a Hungarian Lutheran minister and politician who served in the National Assembly of Hungary from 1990 until 1994. A founding member of the Christian Democratic People's Party, Lukáts was a key figure in the end of communism in Hungary and oversaw the transition in Hungarian religious policy in his position as State Secretary for Church Affairs.

Biography Miklós Lukáts was born on 27 March 1946 in the city of Szombathely, Hungary. Lukáts's father died when he was young, and he was primarily raised by his grandfather, a former judge who remained politically active. Lukáts and his grandfather would frequently talk about politics, and Lukáts credited this for his interest in politics. Though initially trained as an architect, Lukáts became the presbyter of the in 1971, a position he would hold for decades.

In the late 1980s, Lukáts was a key figure in the end of communism in Hungary. In 1988, he became a founding member of the , a political organization which would serve as a workshop for Christian democratic politics. The following year, Lukáts and other members of the Áron Márton Society refounded the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP), with Lukáts becoming its national organizing secretary. In the 1990 Hungarian parliamentary election, Lukáts was elected to the National Assembly of Hungary via the KDNP party list, becoming one of 21 KDNP candidates elected.

During his tenure in parliament, Lukáts was heavily involved with shift in religious policy following the end of communism, which saw the abolished and no office established to replace it. Lukáts died from an illness on 30 October 2022 at the age of 76.