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Marcelo Figueroa
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Marcelo Figueroa is an Argentinian theologian, speaker, and writer who has engaged internationally on interreligious dialogue matters. He collaborated with Pope Francis on ecumenical and interreligious matters since Jorge Bergoglio served as the archbishop of Buenos Aires, including on the television program and book Biblia diálogo vigente with Bergoglio and Rabbi Abraham Skorka. He has served as pastor of San Andrés Presbyterian Church in Buenos Aires and was director of the United Bible Societies for over 20 years. He served as editor of the Argentine edition of L'Osservatore Romano and authored the book Le Diversità Riconciliate: Un protestante nel giornale del Papa (The Differences Reconciled: A Protestant in the Pope’s Newspaper, 2022). He received an award from the YMCA in 2015 for his work in support of interreligious dialogue. Figueroa studied economics at the University of Buenos Aires and theology at the Buenos Aires Bible Institute.