# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/evelio-menjivar-ayala
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:13:23.561Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/evelio-menjivar-ayala"
name: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
slug: "evelio-menjivar-ayala"
description: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala is a Salvadoran-American prelate of the Catholic Church. When made an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington in 2023, he was the first Salvadoran-born bishop in the country. In May 2026, he was appointed Bishop of Wheeling–Charleston in West Virginia by Pope Leo XIV."
tagline: "Salvadorian Roman-Catholic bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala_01.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1970-08-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           46.5
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.467320000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelio_Menjivar-Ayala"
    title: "Evelio Menjivar-Ayala"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q115765770"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump