Jenő Schönberger Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:His Excellency
Jenő Schönberger
Bishop of Satu Mare
Diocese:Roman Catholic Diocese of Satu Mare
Appointed:30 April 2003
Term Start:21 June 2003
Predecessor:Pál Reizer
Ordination:23 June 1985
Consecration:21 June 2003
Consecrated By:György Jakubinyi
Birth Date:18 June 1959
Birth Place:Turulung, Romania
Nationality:Romanian
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Jenő or Eugen Schönberger (born June 18, 1959) 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.[1]

Notes and References

  1. PS episcopul Eugen (Jenő) Schönberger at the Satu Mare Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed May 15, 2012