Simon Péchi

{{Short description|Wealthy Hungarian and Sabbatarian}}

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| nationality=Hungarian

| order=Chancellor of Transylvania

| term_start=1613

| term_end=1621

| predecessor=Vacant
last office-holder: János Imreffy

| successor=Vacant
next office-holder: István Kovacsóczy

| monarch=Gabriel Bethlen

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| birth_date=1570

| birth_place=Peçuy, Sanjak of Peçuy, Ottoman Hungary
(today: Pécs, Hungary)

| death_date=December 1643 (aged 72-73)

| death_place=Szenterzsébet, Principality of Transylvania
(today: Eliseni, Romania)

| spouse=1, Judit Kornis
2, Katalin Barlabássy

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{{Eastern name order|szerdahelyi Péchi Simon}}

Chancellor Simon Péchi (c. 1570/1575–1642) was a Hungarian Székely official, and wealthy supporter of Matthias Vehe and nobleman András Eőssi's Szekler Sabbatarians movement in Transylvania.Agnieszka Barszczewska Lehel Peti Integrating minorities: traditional communities and modernization Page 127 "The diverse work and translation activity of Simon Péchi promoted the spread of Rabbinic Jewish traditions to a great extent. ... Later, the movement earned significant social and political support from Simon Péchi, the wealthy, ..."Kornélia Koltai Péchi Simon kiadatlan rabbinikus írásai 1999 "Péchi Simon életéről Péchi Simon születésének és gyermekkorának körülményeiről nincs kellő adat a birtokunkban; különféle találgatások keletkeztek róla az idők folyamán. A legelfogadottabb feltételezés azonban mára az, hogy Péchi ..." The influence of Péchi's Sabbatarian prayer book contributed to the conversion of around twenty thousand Székelys to Sabbatarianism in the late sixteenth century.Kevin Alan Brook The Jews of Khazaria - 2009 - Page 261 "After Simon Péchi (1575–1642) created a Sabbatarian prayer book, it became a very attractive belief system in the region, and about twenty thousand Székelys converted to Sabbatarianism in the late sixteenth century." Samuel Kohn, Chief Rabbi of Budapest, and the first scholar to take an interest in the Sabbatarians among the Transylvanian unitarians, published a biography of Péchi as part of his studies in 1899.István Keul Early modern religious communities in East-Central Europe 2009 Page 132 Samuel Kohn "Különös tekintettel Péchi Simon főkancellár életére és munkájára [The Sabbatarians: Their History, Teachings, and Literature—With Particular Attention to the Life and Work of the Chancellor Simon Péchi] (Budapest, 1889)