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Joseph A. Munitiz (1931–2022) was a Roman Catholic Jesuit priest and academic. Munitiz was born in
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parentage and educated by the Christian Brothers at Liverpool, and subsequently at the Junior Seminary at Comillas, Cantabria. Munitiz's multiple courses of study include
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, Oxford, where he took the degree in Greats ( Literae Humaniores), the Pontifical University (Comillas) in Spain, the
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Rome. He was appointed to the staff of
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with special responsibility for the Series Graeca of
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(now published by
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). Munitiz served as Master of Campion Hall, Oxford, from 1989 until 1998. He was subsequently retained as a research fellow at
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before retiring to Campion in 2010 and then to a house in London in 2016. Early research work with Marcel Richard on the Series Graeca led him to publishing his thesis on Theognostos (with an academic introduction in French) volume 5 in that series, and completing Richard's volume, the ''Questions and Answers'' of Anastasios of Sinai, vol. 59 (this time with the introduction in English). A third volume, 13, the ''Curriculum Vitae'' of Nikephoros Blemmydes, appeared in 1984. Other publications in the Byzantine tradition followed, and also translations of two of the SG volumes, Anastasios and Theognostos (Corpus Christianorum in Translation vols. 7 and 16), the Blemmydes translation having been published separately. Munitiz has at various times edited the
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and the spiritual magazine The Way (for which he remained on the editorial board for some time). His interest in the work of the founder of the Society of Jesus led to articles and most notably to a joint
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publication on
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's Personal Writings. He died in July 2022, shortly after being released from hospital.


Selected works

*Theognosti Thesaurus, ed. Joseph A. Munitiz, 1971 (Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca, vol. 5) *Anastasii Sinaitae Quaestiones et Responsiones, edd. Marcel Richard, Joseph A. Munitiz, 2006 Corpus Christianorum, Series Graeca, vol. 59) *Ignatius Loyola, Personal Writings, ed. Philip Endean, Joseph Munitiz, Penguin Classics 2005


Sources

*Campion Hall, Oxford, 'Joseph Munitiz' https://web.archive.org/web/20140714222658/http://www.campion.ox.ac.uk/Joseph_Munitiz.html *Joseph A. Munitiz, Autobiographical tesserae, in Bram Roosen & Peter Van Deun, The Literary Legacy of Byzantium: Editions, Translations and Studies in Honour of Joseph A. Munitiz SJ, Brepols 2019 Welsh Jesuits Academics of the University of Birmingham 20th-century Jesuits 20th-century Welsh clergy 21st-century Jesuits 21st-century Welsh clergy 1931 births 2022 deaths {{RC-clergy-stub