Jenő Schönberger

The native form of this personal name is Schönberger Jenő. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.
His Excellency

Jenő Schönberger
Bishop of Satu Mare
Bishop Schönberger
ChurchRoman Catholic
DioceseRoman Catholic Diocese of Satu Mare
Appointed30 April 2003
Installed21 June 2003
PredecessorPál Reizer
Orders
Ordination23 June 1985
Consecration21 June 2003
by György Jakubinyi
Personal details
Born (1959-06-18) June 18, 1959 (age 65)
Turulung, Romania
NationalityRomanian

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

  1. ^ (in Romanian) PS episcopul Eugen (Jenő) Schönberger[permanent dead link‍] at the Satu Mare Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed May 15, 2012