Apostolic Prefect

In today’s Catholic News podcast, we are joined by His Eminence Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The Cardinal has been visiting the UK this week with Missio, the Pope’s charity for world mission.

EWTN interviews Cardinal Giorgio Marengo, one of the world’s youngest cardinals, about serving as a missionary in Mongolia, where Catholics make up less than 1% of the population.

The Good Newsroom sat down with the Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, the Mongolian capital, to hear about his lifelong work as a missionary and the work that is just beginning in this Central Asian country.

A 50-year-old Piedmontese, pastor of a community of just 1,400 Catholics in an immense land where the Gospel was proclaimed only 30 years ago, brings to the conclave the breath of the most extreme missionary frontiers of the Catholic Church.

The verse from Psalm 34 was chosen as the episcopal motto by Bishop Giorgio Marengo, Consolata missionary and Apostolic Prefect of Ulaanbaatar, who was created Cardinal by Pope Francis in the Consistory of August 27, 2022.

Amid the country’s modest religious revival, Cardinal Marengo shares his missionary predecessor’s dream and thinks that the establishment of the first contemplative Catholic monastery in Mongolia “would be the way to evangelize more effectively.”