Marcelo Daniel Colombo

Marcelo Daniel Colombo (born 27 March 1961) is an Argentine prelate of the Catholic Church who has been archbishop of Mendoza since 2018. He has been a bishop since 2009, serving as bishop of Orán from 2009 to 2013 and as bishop of La Rioja from 2013 to 2018.

Biography Marcelo Colombo was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 27 March 1961. He completed his philosophy studies at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Argentina and theology studies at the Center for Philosophical and Theological Studies in Quilmes. He was ordained a priest by Jorge Novak, Bishop of Quilmes, on 16 December 1988. He earned a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1994 and obtained a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas in 1995. He received his episcopal consecration from Luis Teodorico Stöckler, the bishop of Quilmes, on 8 August. The co-consecrators were Mario Antonio Cargnello, archbishop of Salta, and Jorge Rubén Lugones, bishop of Lomas de Zamora. He was installed in his diocese on 22 August 2009.

On 9 July 2013, Pope Francis appointed him bishop of La Rioja. He celebrated his installation Mass there on 7 September. He was installed there on 11 August. as first vice president on 10 November 2021, and as president on 13 November 2024.