Archbishop of Mendoza
Archbishop Marcelo Daniel Colombo, Archbishop of Mendoza, Argentina, was born in Buenos Aires on 27 March 1961. After obtaining a bachelor's degree in trade and the title of lawyer from the University of Buenos Aires, he entered the seminary of Quilmes in 1982. He was ordained a priest on 16 December 1988, and in 1994 obtained a doctorate in canon law from the Angelicum in Rome. He held various offices in different parishes, in the Curia and in the seminary of Quilmes, and was a visiting professor in the faculty of canon law of the Catholic University of Argentina and episcopal delegate at the Catholic University of La Plata. In 2004 he was appointed pastor of the Cathedral of Quilmes. He was appointed Bishop of Oran on 8 May 2008 and was consecrated the following 8 August. On 13 July 2013 he was transferred to the Diocese of La Rioja. In 2017, he was elected second vice president of the Episcopal Conference of Argentina. He is also a member of the commissions for social pastoral ministry, aboriginal pastoral ministry, the lay apostolate, family pastoral care, and the Council for Economic Affairs.