Giorgio Marengo Explained

Type:Cardinal
Giorgio Marengo
Honorific-Prefix:His Eminence
Honorific-Suffix:I.M.C.
Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar
Church:Catholic
See:Ulaanbaatar
Term:2 April 2020
Predecessor:Wenceslao Selga Padilla
Ordination:26 May 2001
Ordained By:Severino Poletto
Consecration:8 August 2020
Consecrated By:Luis Antonio Tagle
Cardinal:27 August 2022
Created Cardinal By:Pope Francis
Rank:Cardinal priest
Birth Name:Giorgio Marengo
Birth Date:1974 6, df=yes
Birth Place:Cuneo, Italy
Coat Of Arms:Coat of arms of Giorgio Marengo (cardinal).svg
Alma Mater:Pontifical Urban University
Motto:la|Respicite ad eum et illuminamini|Look towards Him and be enlightened|break=yes
Cardinal Name:Giorgio Marengo
Dipstyle:His Eminence
Offstyle:Your Eminence
Relstyle:Cardinal
See:Ulaanbaatar

Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C. (born 7 June 1974) is an Italian prelate of the Catholic Church. Created a cardinal by Pope Francis on 27 August 2022, he has been the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, a missionary jurisdiction that covers the entire country of Mongolia, since 2 April 2020.

He is the youngest member of the College of Cardinals.[1]

Biography

Marengo was born in Cuneo on 7 June 1974. He is part of the scouts, practices fencing[2] and he graduated at a classical lyceum.

He studied philosophy from 1993 to 1995 at the Theological Faculty of Northern Italy and theology from 1996 to 1999 at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He studied at the Pontifical Urban University from 1999 to 2002, earning a licentiate and later on (2016) a doctorate in missiology. On 24 June 2000, he made his profession of vows for the Consolata Missionaries and on 26 May 2001 he was ordained a priest.[3]

The first member (together with a confrere and 3 religious sisters) of his order to work in Mongolia, he has served there since becoming a priest.[3]

From 2016 to 2020 he was his order's regional councilor of Asia, superior of the Consolata Missionaries for Mongolia and parish priest at Mary Mother of Mercy parish in Arvaikheer.[3] [4]

On 2 April 2020 Pope Francis appointed him apostolic prefect of Ulaanbaatar and titular bishop of Castra Severiana.[3] He succeeded Wenceslao Selga Padilla, who died on 25 September 2018.[5] He was consecrated in the Santuario della Consolata on 8 August 2020 by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle,[6] [7] assisting him were Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia, Archbishop of Turin and Cardinal Severino Poletto, Archbishop-emeritus of Turin.[8] [9]

When Pope Francis announced on 29 May 2022 that he planned to make Marengo a cardinal on 27 August, Marengo was in Rome to participate in a meeting he had arranged between the pope and Buddhist leaders from Mongolia. He said: "Dialogue with the Buddhist world, which is a majority in Mongolia, is fundamental for us, it is part of our mission. I am sure it will bear good fruit."[10] [11]

On 27 August 2022, Pope Francis made him a Cardinal-Priest, assigning him the title of San Giuda Taddeo Apostolo.[12] On 7 October 2022, Pope Francis appointed him as a member of the Dicastery for Evangelization.[13] [14]

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Notes and References

  1. News: . 30 May 2022 . 29 May 2022 . Pope Francis Announces 21 New Cardinals . Elisabetta . Povoledo.
  2. Web site: Padre Giorgio Marengo è ora prefetto apostolico in Mongolia . Fabrizio Brignone . 2 April 2020 . laguida.it . 1 June 2020 . Italian.
  3. Resignations and Appointments, 02.04.2020. 30 May 2022 . Holy See Press Office . 2 April 2020 .
  4. Web site: Articoli di Giorgio Marengo . amico.rivistamissioniconsolata.it . 8 June 2020.
  5. Web site: Nomina del Prefetto Apostolico di Ulaanbaatar (Mongolia) . consolata.org . 25 May 2020.
  6. Web site: Corea del Sud: Nell'ultima settimana i contagi hanno ripreso... . Giovanni Paolo . Lamberto . 21 June 2020 . consolata.org . 4 July 2020 . it.
  7. Web site: Padre Giorgio Marengo. La Mongolia ora ha il suo vescovo . Federica . Bello . 9 August 2020 . Avvenire . 12 August 2020 . it.
  8. Web site: Padre Marengo è Vescovo . Federica Bello . 8 August 2020 . vocetempo.it . 10 August 2020 . it.
  9. Web site: La chiesa cattolica in Mongolia, intervista al neo vescovo cuneese Giorgio Marengo . Sabrina . Pelazza . 24 August 2020 . lafedelta.it . 11 September 2020 . it.
  10. News: 2 June 2022 . The Apostolic Prefect Marengo, appointed Cardinal: "That of the Pope is a missionary gesture" . 30 May 2022 . Agenzia Fides.
  11. Holy See Press Office . 2 June 2022 . 28 May 2022 . Audience with a delegation of the Buddhist Authority in Mongolia, 28.05.2022.
  12. Web site: Assegnazione dei Titoli e delle Diaconie ai nuovi Cardinali . 27 August 2022 . . . it. Assignment of Titles and Deaconries to the new Cardinals. 29 August 2022.
  13. Web site: Marengo Card. Giorgio, I.M.C. . Holy See Press Office. https://web.archive.org/web/20220828005202/https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/en/documentation/cardinali_biografie/cardinali_bio_marengo_g.html. 28 August 2022.
  14. Resignations and Appointments, 07.10.2022 . 7 October 2022 . . 23 March 2023 . B0745/01532-EN.01.