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Bishop Ignacio Damián Medina

Bishop of Río Gallegos

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Geboren
17.03.1967 Tandil, Tandil Partido, Argentina
Staatsangehörigkeit
Argentina
Priesterweihe
26.11.1994 Rivadavia 415, Argentina
Bischofsweihe
29.02.2020 Diocese, Titular
Ernannt
14.10.2023
Hauptkonsekrator
Jorge Rubén Lugones S.J.
Mitkonsekratoren
Mario Aurelio Poli Juan Carlos Ares

Bishop Ignacio Damián Medina was born in Tandil, diocese of Azul, on 17 March 1967. He attended the Inmaculada Concepción Metropolitan Seminary of Villa Devoto, Buenos Aires, and obtained a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and theology from the Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina. He received priestly ordination on 26 November 1994, and was incardinated in the archdiocese of Buenos Aires. He has held the following offices: deacon of Santa Rosa de Lima; parish vicar of San Rafael Arcángel and of Santa Ana y Joaquín. In 2000 he transferred as a fidei donum priest to the diocese of Río Gallegos, where he served in the Inmaculada Concepción parish until 2006. Upon returning to the archdiocese of Buenos Aires, he was parish priest of Espíritu Santo and of Niño Jesús. On 26 November 2019 he was appointed titular bishop of Nepte and auxiliary of Lomas de Zamora, receiving episcopal ordination the following 29 December. Within the Argentine Episcopal Conference, he is a member of the Episcopal Commission for Catholic Education.