Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega, S.J. †

Deceased

Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, Ecuador

Cardinal-Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino

Events

Date	Age	Event	Title
23 May 1903		Born
25 Jul 1933	30.1	Ordained Priest	Priest of Society of Jesus
7 Feb 1964	60.7	Appointed	Coadjutor Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
7 Feb 1964	60.7	Appointed	Titular Bishop of Ceramus
19 Mar 1964	60.8	Ordained Bishop	Titular Bishop of Ceramus
23 Jun 1967	64.0	Appointed	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
28 Apr 1969	65.9	Elevated to Cardinal
28 Apr 1969	65.9	Appointed	Cardinal-Priest of San Roberto Bellarmino
1 Jun 1985	82.0	Retired	Archbishop of Quito, Ecuador
3 Jun 1994	91.0	Died	Archbishop Emeritus of Quito, Ecuador

MicroData Summary
Pablo Muñoz Vega
Pablo Cardinal Muñoz Vega S.J.
(born 23 May 1903, died 3 Jun 1994)
Archbishop Emeritus of Quito

Second Vatican Council: Session Three: Council Father
Second Vatican Council: Session Four: Council Father
Consistory - 1969: Created Cardinal
Conclave - August 1978: Participated
Conclave - October 1978: Participated

Event Place
Birth Place Mira, Diocese of Ibarra
Ordained Bishop San Ignazio, Church, Roma, Diocese of Roma {Rome}, Italy
Death Place Quito, Archdiocese of Quito

a priest for 60.8 years
a bishop for 30.2 years
a cardinal for 25.0 years

Principal Consecrator:
Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri †
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Principal Co-Consecrators:
Archbishop Antonio Samorè †
Titular Archbishop of Ternobus
Archbishop Martin John O’Connor †
Titular Archbishop of Laodicea in Syria

Episcopal Lineage / Apostolic Succession:

Carlo Cardinal Confalonieri † (1941)
Cardinal-Priest of Sant’Agnese fuori le mura
Pope Pius XII (1917)
(Eugenio Maria Giuseppe Giovanni Pacelli †)
Pope Benedict XV (1907)
(Giacomo Giambattista della Chiesa †)
Pope Pius X (1884)
(St. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto †)
Lucido Maria Cardinal Parocchi † (1871)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro † (1828)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Carlo Cardinal Odescalchi, S.J. † (1823)
Cardinal-Priest of Santi XII Apostoli
Giulio Maria Cardinal della Somaglia † (1788)
Cardinal-Bishop of Ostia (e Velletri)
Hyacinthe-Sigismond (Jean-François) Cardinal Gerdil, B. † (1777)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Cecilia
Marcantonio Cardinal Colonna (Jr.) † (1762)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Pace
Pope Clement XIII (1743)
(Carlo della Torre Rezzonico †)
Pope Benedict XIV (1724)
(Prospero Lorenzo Lambertini †)
Pope Benedict XIII (1675)
(Pietro Francesco (Vincenzo Maria) Orsini de Gravina, O.P. †)
Paluzzo Cardinal Paluzzi Altieri Degli Albertoni † (1666)
Chamberlain (Camerlengo) of the Apostolic Chamber
Ulderico Cardinal Carpegna † (1630)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria in Trastevere
Luigi Cardinal Caetani † (1622)
Cardinal-Priest of Santa Pudenziana
Ludovico Cardinal Ludovisi † (1621)
Archbishop of Bologna
Archbishop Galeazzo Sanvitale † (1604)
Archbishop Emeritus of Bari (-Canosa)
Girolamo Cardinal Bernerio, O.P. † (1586)
Cardinal-Bishop of Albano
Giulio Antonio Cardinal Santorio † (1566)
Cardinal-Priest of San Bartolomeo all’Isola
Scipione Cardinal Rebiba †
Titular Patriarch of Constantinople

Ordained Priest:
Bishop Segundo René Coba Galarza (1982)
Principal Consecrator of:
Antonio José Cardinal González Zumárraga † (1969)
Archbishop Juan Ignacio Larrea Holguín † (1969)
Raúl Eduardo Cardinal Vela Chiriboga † (1972)
Bishop Tomás Angel Romero Gross, O.P. † (1973)
Archbishop Luis Alberto Luna Tobar, O.C.D. † (1977)
Bishop Luis Enrique Orellana Ricaurte, S.J. † (1978)
Bishop Luis Oswaldo Pérez Calderón † (1984)
Principal Co-Consecrator of:
Bishop Luis Clemente de la Vega Rodriguez † (1965)
Archbishop Vicente Rodrigo Cisneros Durán † (1968)
Archbishop José Mario Ruiz Navas † (1969)
Bishop Raúl Holguer López Mayorga (1973)
Bishop Emilio Lorenzo Stehle † (1983)

External Link(s):

Vatican Library: 495/135832
VIAF: 3283562
WikiData: Q545335

Source(s):

ob/c2/d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 138
d: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 141, Necrology (back)
c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 19, Number 986, Ascendance
ob/c2: Le Petit Episcopologe, Issue 98, Deceased Cardinals (back)
b/c2+: Les Ordinations Épiscopales, Year 1964, Number 21

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