Esteban María Laxague, SDB (standing for Priest of Don Bosco, in Spanish) is as of 2006 the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Viedma (Dioecesis Viedmensis).
He was born in Coronel Pringles, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina -close to Bahía Blanca- on March 4, 1957.
His native tongue is Spanish although he is fluent in French (the language currently spoken by all of his family members) and Italian, mandatory among the Salesians.
He completed his secondary education at Colegio Don Bosco in Bahía Blanca, receiving his title of bachiller in 1979.
He was ordained priest on May 10, 1982, after which he stayed in Neuquén and Bahía Blanca becoming director of School "La Piedad", belonging to the Order of the Salesians until 1990 when he was appointed director of Colegio Don Bosco in the same city of Bahía Blanca.