The Co-Cathedral of St. Anthony of Padua () also called Békéscsaba Cathedral is the name given to a religious building located in the city of

Békéscsaba Békéscsaba (; ; see also #Name, other alternative names) is a city with county rights in southeast Hungary, the capital of Békés County. Geography Békéscsaba is located in the Great Hungarian Plain, southeast from Budapest. Highway 44, 47 ...

, in the European country of

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, which was built in 1910 with a

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style. The temple follows the Roman or Latin rite and since 2010 serves as the

Co-Cathedral A co-cathedral is a cathedral church which shares the function of being a bishop's seat, or ''cathedra'', with another cathedral, often in another city (usually a former see, anchor city of the metropolitan area or the civil capital). Instances o ...

or alternate cathedral of the

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. It is the second largest church in the city after a Protestant church. Its tower reaches 61 meters high. It is under the pastoral responsibility of the bishop László Kiss-Rigó. It was dedicated to St. Anthony of Lisbon was a priest of the Franciscan Order, Portuguese preacher and theologian, venerated as a saint and Doctor of the Church by Catholicism.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:St. Anthony of Padua, Church Roman Catholic cathedrals in Hungary Buildings and structures in Békéscsaba Roman Catholic churches completed in 1910 20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Hungary

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