Fernando Chomalí Garib

Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib (born 10 March 1957) is a Chilean prelate of the Catholic Church who has been Metropolitan Archbishop of Santiago in Chile since December 2023.

[1] He has worked as a parish vicar, episcopal delegate for university pastoral care, professor of moral theology and bioethics in the Faculties of Theology and Medicine of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile and in the Major Seminary of Santiago; as parish priest of Santa María de la Misericordia, moderator of the Curia and president delegate of the Economic Council of the archdiocese.

In the final days of that assignment, he met with Pope Francis and tried without success to impress upon him the impact his appointment of Juan Barros as Osorno's new bishop was having.

[9] Chomalí had long been friends with Juan Carlos Cruz, who was charging Barros with failure to protect him from sexual abuse.

[10] On 10 September 2018, in a pastoral letter on the sexual abuse crisis, he called for the Church to cooperate fully with civil authorities: "We must obey the law because we are not above the norms that govern the country."

He regretted that Church had lost its reputation as "a voice for the voiceless" and had become "for a growing percentage of the population ... a cause of scandal, of profound questioning, of much distrust and little credibility".