List of places in Satu Mare

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This is a list of the most important tourist sites in Satu Mare, Romania.

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Places of worship

Historical buildings

Statues and historical monuments

Bridges

Modern buildings

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Satu Mare County County of Romania

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Crișana

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Satu Mare City in Satu Mare County, Romania

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Drobeta-Turnu Severin Municipality in Mehedinți, Romania

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Carei Municipality in Satu Mare, Romania

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Dej Municipality in Cluj, Romania

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Ardusat Commune in Maramureș, Romania

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Oradea Mare

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Administrative Palace, Satu Mare Building in Romania

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SS. Michael and Gabriel Cathedral, Satu Mare

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Pál Reizer

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Jenő Schönberger

Jenő or Eugen Schönberger is a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Satu Mare. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Turulung (Túrterebes), Satu Mare County, he studied at the Roman Catholic Theological Institute of Alba Iulia before being ordained in 1985. He was assistant priest in Carei, Satu Mare and Baia Mare and parish priest in Petreşti and Satu Mare. From 1997 to 2001, he was spiritual director and professor of liturgics at Alba Iulia. In 2001 he became parish priest at Dorolț, and the following year he was transferred to Sighetu Marmaţiei. In 2003 he was consecrated bishop in the cathedral in Satu Mare by Alba Iulia Archbishop György Jakubinyi.

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