The Cathedral of the Holy Trinity () in

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is a Romanian Greek Catholic

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commissioned by

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Inocențiu Micu-Klein Ioan Inocențiu Micu-Klein, also known by his lay name Ioan Micu (1692 – 22 September 1768), was a Bishop of Fogaras and Primate of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church from 1730 to his resignation in 1751. He played an instrumental role in the ...

in 1738. The church was built by

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s Anton Erhard Martinelli and Johann Baptist Martinelli, being completed in 1749. The building was extended in 1838, when the two monumental towers were added.

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