Mario León Dorado is a Spanish Roman Catholic priest, in the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
As he grew up, he decided that he wanted to undertake missionary work, taking his vows on 15 September 1996.
He was later ordained as priest on 2 June 2001, and served for three years in the Province of Jaén in Spain, with a desire to be posted to a ministry in an Arabic region afterwards.
[2] Upon the completion of the Jaén posting, he moved to the Sahara region and began to learn Arabic, French and English in order to better serve his parishioners.
[1] On 24 June 2013, he was appointed by Pope Francis as Apostolic prefect of Western Sahara, prefecture of which he had been the administrator since the resignation of Rodríguez in 2009.