Pál Reizer
Pál Reizer (January 6, 1943 — April 18, 2002) was a Romanian cleric, bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Satu Mare. Born into an ethnic Hungarian family in Túrterebes (Turulung), Satu Mare County, he studied at the and was ordained a priest in 1967 by Áron Márton. Under the communist regime, he was a chaplain at the parish in Sighetu Marmației, secretary at the Satu Mare diocese and a priest at a nunnery. In 1988, he was named parish priest at Sighetu Marmației. In 1990, after the fall of the regime, he was consecrated a bishop by Francesco Colasuonno, serving until his death. During his years as bishop, the diocese's institutions experienced an intellectual and spiritual revival. He died of diabetes; his funeral was held at the cathedral in Satu Mare and he was buried in the city's Roman Catholic cemetery.[1][2]
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- ^ (in Hungarian) Szatmári Egyházmegye rövid története at the Satu Mare Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed May 11, 2012
- ^ (in Romanian) Lumina Creştinului (May 2002) at the Iaşi Roman Catholic Diocese site; accessed May 11, 2012
- 1943 births
- 2002 deaths
- People from Satu Mare County
- Romanian religious leaders of Hungarian descent
- Deaths from diabetes
- 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Romania