Pablo Muñoz Vega

Who was Pablo Muñoz Vega?

Pablo Muñoz Vega S.J. was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church and Archbishop of Quito.

He was born in Mira, Carchi. He joined the Society of Jesus on 27 September 1918. He was educated at the Jesuit houses of studies in Ecuador, the Colegio Máximo de Oña in Burgos, Spain and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

He was ordained to Holy Orders on 25 July 1933 in Rome. He served on the staff of the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1937 to 1949, and from 1958 until 1964 was Jesuit provincial of Ecuador. He was an expert at the Second Vatican Council in Rome for a year from 1962.