Pablo Muñoz Vega

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Styles of Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega
Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Quito

His Eminence Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega S.J. (23 May 1903 - 3 June 1994) was an Ecuadorian prelate 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 as on the staff of the Pontifical Gregorian University from 1937 to 1949 and from 1958 until 1964 he was Jesuit provincial of Ecuador. He was an expert at the Second Vatican Council in Rome for a year from 1962.

[edit] Episcopate

Pope Paul VI appointed him titular bishop of Ceramo which was raised to the level of an Archbishop pro hac vice and appointed was coadjutor bishop of Quito on 7 February 1964. He was consecrated on 19 March of that year. He succeeded to the metropolitan see of Quito on 23 June 1967.

[edit] Cardinalate

He was created and proclaimed Cardinal Priest of S. Roberto Bellarmino in the consistory of 28 April 1969. He participated in the conclave of 1958 that elected Pope John Paul I and the following conclave of October. Resigned the pastoral government of the archdiocese in 1985 at the age of 82.