Giorgio Marengo


Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C. is an Italian Consolata priest who from 2 April 2020 is the Apostolic prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar, a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Mongolia. From that date, he also was appointed as the Titular bishop of Castra Severiana.

Biography

He was born in Cuneo on 1974. He is part of the scouts, practices fencing and graduates at classical lyceum.
On June 24, 2000 he made profession of vows for the Consolata Missionaries and on 26 May 2001 he was ordained a priest.
From 2000 to 2006 he studied at the Pontifical Urban University and took a missiology doctorate. He is the first representative Consolata missionary in Mongolia.
Missionary correspondent in Mongolia, from 2016 and until the episcopal appointment he is regional councilor of Asia, superior of the order for Mongolia and priest at Mary Mother of Mercy parish in Arvaikheer.
On 2 April 2020 Pope Francis appointed him apostolic prefect of Ulan Bator, and titular bishop of Castra Severiana; he succeeds Wenceslao Selga Padilla, who died on 25 September 2018. He is consecrated in the Santuario della Consolata on August 8, 2020, by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, co-consacrators the archbishop Cesare Nosiglia and the cardinal Severino Poletto.

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