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Episcopia Bihorului, Oradea — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Episcopia Bihorului, or Episcopia Bihor, is a quarter in northwest Oradea, attached to the city in 1956, its station a rail crossing into Hungary.
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Where to stay in Episcopia Bihorului
The practical side of choosing where to sleep.
Gara Episcopia Bihor is the reason most people pass through: it is a border crossing point on the line into Hungary. The quarter itself is residential, on the northwestern edge of Oradea. Visitors mostly do not stop.
About Episcopia Bihorului
What are the main landmarks in Episcopia Bihorului?
The Reformed church was built in the 14th century in gothic style, and its bell tower was added in the middle of the 18th in baroque. The Roman Catholic church of Sfântul Laurențiu went up at the end of the 1890s, consecrated by bishop Laurentius Schlauch, later a cardinal. Its feast falls on 10 August.
What is the history of Episcopia Bihorului?
The place was called Püspöki in Hungarian until 1918, and appears as Biharpüspöki and Váradpüspöki as well. Romanian records give Piscopia in 1920, and Pișpichiu stuck as the colloquial form. Oradea absorbed it in 1956.
Ladislau Hosszú, once parish priest here, was buried in the church of Sfântul Laurențiu in March 1983, and the canon Sándor Eberwein lies in the quarter's cemetery.
Where is Episcopia Bihorului?
Episcopia Bihorului sits at the northwestern corner of Oradea, hard against the Hungarian border. Rails cross the frontier here.
Updated September 2026