# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmundo-valenzuela-mellid
# Generated: 2026-08-15T22:51:35.258Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmundo-valenzuela-mellid"
name: "Edmundo Valenzuela Mellid"
slug: "edmundo-valenzuela-mellid"
description: "Archbishop Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid SDB is a Roman Catholic missionary currently serving in Paraguay as the sixth Metropolitan Archbishop of the Archdiocese of Asunción. On February 13, 2006, he was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as Apostolic Vicar to Chaco Paraguayo, an area with a population of 18,000 but only 5 ordained priests. As a result of this appointment, he was consecrated to the episcopate 22 April 2006. Prior to this appointment, Valenzuela served as a high-profile missionary in Angola. Valenzuela was ordained a priest of the Salesians of Don Bosco in 1977."
tagline: "Paraguayan Roman Catholic priest, Christian missionary"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Mgr._Edmundo_Valenzuela%2C_S.D.B.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1944-11-19"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.9032258064516129
  historical:           9.406084
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmundo_Valenzuela"
    title: "Edmundo Valenzuela"
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    title: "Edmundo Valenzuela Mellid"
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    title: "Edmundo Valenzuela"
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    title: "Edmundo Ponziano Valenzuela Mellid"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump