Cardinal Fernando Natalio Chomalí Garib, Archbishop of Santiago de Chile, Chile, was born on 10 March 1957 in Santiago de Chile. After graduating in civil engineering from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, he carried out his studies in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Major Seminary of Santiago. He received priestly ordination on 6 April 1991 for the metropolitan archdiocese of Santiago de Chile. He was awarded a licentiate in moral theology at the Pontifical Alphonsian Academy in Rome, a doctorate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, and a master’s degree in bioethics from the Pontifical John Paul II Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences in Rome. He has held the offices of parish vicar, episcopal delegate for university pastoral care, professor of moral theology and bioethics in the Faculty of Theology and Medicine of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and the Major Seminary, parish priest of Santa María de la Misericordia, moderator of the Curia and president delegate of the Economic Board of the metropolitan archdiocese of Santiago de Chile, and member of the Pontifical Academy for Life (since 2001). On 6 April 2006 he was appointed titular bishop of Noba and auxiliary of Santiago de Chile, receiving episcopal consecration the following 3 June. On 20 April he was appointed archbishop of Concepción and, on 25 October 2023, metropolitan archbishop of Santiago de Chile. He is currently vice president of the Episcopal Conference of Chile.

Created and proclaimed Cardinal by Pope Francis in the consistory of 7 December 2024 of the Title of S. Mauro Abate.