Episcopal palace, Sümeg, Baroque episcopal palace in Sümeg, Hungary

The Episcopal Palace of Sümeg is a one-storey Baroque building on the slope below the castle, built between 1748 and 1755 and forming a square around an inner courtyard. The central bay of the facade rises half a storey above the wings, with a balcony above the entrance held by two atlas figures. A shingled onion-domed turret stands at the eastern corner, and a covered corner balcony projects at the western corner.

Bishop Márton Padányi Bíró of Veszprém, in conflict with his Protestant see city, chose Sümeg and built the palace between 1748 and 1755 on the site of an older noble house, spending some 100,000 forints. It served as the bishops' residence only until 1775, when a new palace in Veszprém was finished. In the 1830s it was partly rebuilt in Neoclassical style; nationalised in 1947, it housed a school and dormitory, losing frescoes and furnishings.

The palace's picture gallery, now a museum, holds mainly high-quality paintings from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The library room's furniture was transferred to the Museum of Applied Arts. The east wing, built into the castle slope, has been reconstructed inside and can be visited with period furniture and pictures from the Sümeg Gallery.

The palace sits on the slope below Sümeg Castle, its entrance rizalit facing the Franciscan church. The ground-floor east wing, rebuilt with period furniture and paintings from the Sümeg Gallery, can be visited; most of the building still awaits restoration. The gate is framed by two atlas figures on high bases, and the central window above carries Márton Bíró's coat of arms.

The palace originally had 31 rooms, and its library hall was large enough to be called a hall rather than a room; its furniture was later moved to the Museum of Applied Arts in Budapest. The east wing, built into the castle slope, is single-storey and was created by keeping and converting an earlier house on the plot.