Carlos María Collazzi Irazábal was born in Rosario, Uruguay, on 20 September 1947, and entered the religious order of the Salesians of Don Bosco and was ordained a priest on 4 October 1980.
On 14 February 1995 Pope John Paul II appointed him Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mercedes.
[2] He visited Chile in December 2011 and January 2012 on behalf of the Vatican to investigate the situation of priests associated with Fernando Karadima, who had been suspended from his priestly functions early in 2011 for the sexual abuse of minors.
[5] He is first vice-president of the Episcopal Conference of Latin America (CELAM) from 2015 to 2019.
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