He studied medicine at the University of Athens and then went to Munich for further training where he was awarded a doctorate in medicine at the University of Munich. He returned to the Ionian Islands and practiced his medical profession. But he was also involved in politics. He fought for the union of the Ionian Islands with Greece. In 1852 he became a member and later President of the Radical Party (union with Greece) of the Ionian Parliament. He rendered many services to all the liberation movements of Greece, Continental, Cretan and Thessalian. Militant, liberal and democratic, he wrote fearlessly in favour of the independence from the English of the Ionian Islands and their unconditional integration with Greece. An outstanding orator, he supported the representation of the Ionian Islands with 102 deputies.

He was an advisor to Otto. After the union (1864) of the Ionian Islands with Greece, he was elected several times (9 times) from 1865 to 1888 and Plenipotentiary in 1864. He was Minister under Koumoundouros in 1865 in the Ecclesiastical and Education and Justice in 1866-67. Lombard also founded a party with Char. He founded the Fifth Party (the Fifth Party) in 1864, which was founded in 1883, with the help of the Fifth Party (the Fifth Party). He travelled frequently to Italy and had contacts with Garibaldi for revolutionary movements in Greece. He joined the party and became deputy leader of Charilaos Trikoupis and was appointed Minister of Justice in 1875, Minister of Interior in 1880 and Minister of Ecclesiastical Affairs in 1883. He also distinguished himself as a journalist and in 1858 he published the newspapers Voice of the Ionian and Palingenesia. He also published his Memoirs on the History of the Ionian Islands (1871-75) and other works. He was a member of the Council of the Grand Lodge of Greece.