Giorgio Marengo
Giorgio Marengo, I.M.C. (7 June 1974) is an Italian-born Roman Catholic prelate, who from 2 April 2020 is the Apostolic prefect of the Apostolic Prefecture of Ulaanbaatar, a structure 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 he graduated at a classical lyceum. On 24 June 2000, he made his 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. Likewise, he was the Missionary correspondent in Mongolia, from 2016, and until his episcopal appointment he was regional councilor of Asia, superior of the Consolata Missionaries 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 was consecrated in the Santuario della  Consolata on August 8, 2020, by Cardinal Luis Antonio Tagle, assisting him were Archbishop Cesare Nosiglia, Archbishop of Turin and Cardinal Severino Poletto, Archbishop-emeritus of Turin.